The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest daughter.

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again.

Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw from elm tops, delicate as flower of grass, What we below could not see, Winter pass.

How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able to turn round in the grave and to say It is over.

As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

Making war or rebellion is messy, like eating soup off a knife.

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904

Yes; I remember Adlestrop- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June.

I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it.

Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all.

I have been quiet today because fear in my heart has been fighting with frustration in my brain, leaving little energy for my mouth.

A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.

Carrot Top is a nickname that people call me and I thought that it was more marketable.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

Teach like your hair's on fire!

Chemistry is a contribution that teammates make to each other, but it's also something a coach can create or facilitate.

I don't see myself as an artist. I work with artists and collaborate with them, but then it becomes graphic design. It's not an art. I'm a graphic designer.

I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.