But, visiting Sea, your love doth press / And reach in further than you know, / And fills all these; and, when you go, / There's loneliness in loneliness.

We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?

Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds...

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

It is an Age where any sort of debauchery is tolerated, as long as it brings fame with it.

Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate

We’ll never solve the problems we don’t talk about.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the one he lived in.

The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.

God can dream a bigger dream for you then you could ever dream for yourself.

It's great to be young and a Yankee!