The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.

Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant; Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.

So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.

That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.

Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.

It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.