“ For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. ”

“ The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. ”

“ I will show you fear in a handful of dust. ”

“ Home is where one starts from. ”

“ As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ”

“ The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. ”

“ Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? ”

“ A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. ”

“ So the lover must struggle for words. ”

“ Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ”