Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

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.

As long as we don't get turned into something that looks more like high school, more like everybody else and less like us, I'll be okay.

The only place the broken past has in our present, is the place we give it.

Wanting to change to improve a person's situation means offering him for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

People have this impression that I'm this crazy Christian, but I'm really balanced.

Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.

Love can wait to give. Lust can't wait to get.

Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.

I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything's a bit brighter and more in focus.

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.