There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)

But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Never say No when the world says Aye.

Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.