Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.

I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed.

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

l am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.