It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

Farewell - farewell, For I am weary of the weight of time.

Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.

A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.