Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves.

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Coquetry is the champagne of love.

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

Freedom meant one thing to him—home.But they wouldn't let him go home.

I love you. Forever, and a day.

All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight.

The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters.

There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.

I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.

Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.

God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.