Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place.

Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

Don't even think of arguing with me. I'm an old woman and if you fight me about it, it could give me a heart attack.

love an invisible force that makes you realize that reality is better than fantasy.

she is waiting the day she would stop writing about him in her daily book

If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

So some will be left who remember.

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things.

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.