Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.

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

A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.