Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room

With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'

You are the music while the music lasts.

We must learn to suffer more.

With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.