So let me be thy choir, and make a moan Upon the midnight hours.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killed

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

Rejoice and be glad all you who hope in the Lord.

I don't put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill.

What the hell has (Herbert) Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did.

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter.

He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her

The right story needs the right telling.

I learned all about life with a ball at my feet