The clouds may drop down titles and estates and wealth may seek us but...
The weak have remedies the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss.
One to destroy is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe...
The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank and puts her...
Much learning shows how little mortals know much wealth how little wordings...
Some for renown on scraps of learning dote And think they grow immortal as...
The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie long in the...
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor...
Life is the desert life the solitude death joins us to the great majority.
He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to...
Poetry asks people to have values form opinions care about some other part...
For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly...
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good...
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently link by link with sweat and...
I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.