How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

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.

Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness it has no taste.

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

Broadway is one of the hardest things I've ever done.

I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

I'm certainly much happier when I feel that the work is good.

I'm supposed to be writing a book, and I can hardly read.

You've got to have fun playing. It bothers me when players don't seem to be enjoying themselves, even when they play an incredible improvisation.