Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego

Their woes gone by, and both to heaven upflown, To bow for gratitude before Jove's throne.

I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.

one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another

it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

O aching time! O moments big as years!

There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done.