Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

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.

...We are all Federalists, and we are all Republicans.

What they might lack in intelligence, they make up for with sheer quantities of high explosive.

That felt meaningful somehow, like the words on the pages ached for him to know their sorrow.

This is what we do. We make tea and read books and watch people die.

He even dressed up for you. He only has one stain on his t-shirt.- Rylie Cruz

You know the law, Dresden." "He who kills the cheer springs for beer," chanted the rest of the table.

A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good day of peace and consolation.

Be fast on the field physically, but play slow mentally. Basically, play hard but play smart.

who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who tries.

You know you're old when your walker has an airbag.