And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.

We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.