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.

Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.

No accident of environment or circumstance need cut us off from nature. ... It does not matter how shut in we are. Opportunity for wide experience is of small acccount in this as in other things; it is depth that brings understanding and life.

But when you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of a window a deal more than those that are content with their dwelling.

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

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