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.

I am natured into blissful radiance by nature, Natura, and my elemental friends.

Misers makes money their lord, but the spenders makes it their slaves and servants

The frog became a prince. The young girl believed and that made the difference. People become who they think they are

True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life.

Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp and escaped from the jungle.

We really care about photography at Vanity Fair.

Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.

It's a long climb up Fools' Hill.

Baby, I've tried to find a place inside your heart. Oh, but it's hard to start a fire without a spark.

I think I'm a lot happier than people might think from listening to my songs.