Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightAnd watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.

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.

So where did you get your information? Werewolves for Dummies? No, wait, you watched Underworld? Or maybe you were raised by wolves? Stop mewhen I’m warm.” - Shella

When you listen, it's amazing what you can learn. When you act on what you've learned, it's amazing what you can change.

poetry is not—except in a very limited sense—a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?

Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love.

The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one's own way.

I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

Sadness is so ungrateful.

Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.

You can never pat yourself on the back during the season. Then you get complacent, stop working and let yourself slide.

We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.