And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.

I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

We must learn to suffer more.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.