Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

not fare well, but fare forward

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.

When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

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