History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.

The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.

Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.