As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

You're something between a dream and a miracle.

Light tomorrow with today!

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Silence is the best response to a fool.

I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.

Doubt is unnecessary

Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.

Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.--"And?"And it makes you vulnerable.

I'd love to visit Thailand just for the street food and the energy of a city like Bangkok.

You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you've got thousands of chicks there.

I am crazy about mysterious things.

Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.

In other words, I step out of line and we're all dead.

Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...

Principle I: Legal rights are presumptive rights.