Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman -But who is that on the other side of you?

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.