Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

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

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

When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.

Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.