Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

I've been born, and once is enough.

For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.