Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

You will only ever achieve the level of success that matches your wisdom or personal development level.

A tree sings to us with her beauty and her love. It is our responsibility to listen to her music.

Your dreams are so far outside of your comfort zone, you've convinced yourself you don't dream at all.

Perhaps the greatest psychological, spiritual, and medical need that all people have is the need for hope.

This is not an issue of geography. He IS of two worlds wherever he goes.

Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.

And then there was the way you cast your gaze, A coldness so chilling that it could cause a fire.

I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world, and the richest man in the world.

Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up.

Why should the immediate opportunity set be the only one considered, when tomorrow's may well be considerably more fertile than today's?