A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think

The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.