But the best I've known Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown About the winds of the world, and fades from brains Of living men, and dies.

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink.

Just now the lilac is in bloom All before my little room.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.

If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful.

All the little emptiness of love!

A peaceful spirit, a prosperous soul.

Books and knowledge are the two most powerful drugs.

Every battle, every war - is fought for things worth dying for.

Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it.

It's also important to develop a burden for the lost.

'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.

I have days when I just feel I look like a dog.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.

O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.