If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

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

Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.

A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.

I have so much of you in my heart.

To silence gossip, don't repeat it.

My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.

The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.

To stay youthful, stay useful.