Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

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.

Call no man happy until he is dead.

There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing.

I'd walked too close to heaven and gotten a glimpse. The hell I'd lived before her no longer appealed to me.

I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.

Generation after generation of women have pledged to raise their daughters differently, only to find that their daughters grow up and fervently pledge the same thing.

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

In terms of my own work ethic, I've always been a determined person. When I'm focused on something, I try to see it through.

The fruit of the Spirit is not what we can make ourselves do for a moment, But what God makes us to be for a lifetime.