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

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.

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.

It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

I don't design down to a price.

Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.

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The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai chi.

I got kicked out of Riverdance for using my arms.

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

The Warrior of the light knows that when somebody wants something, the whole Universe conspires in their favor.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.