Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest.

It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

it is the way of lovers to think that none can bless or succour their love but their own selves. And there is a touch of truth in it, maybe more than a touch.

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.