But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water.

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence