Love is the energy of life.

Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more, One task more declined, one more footpath untrod,One more devils’-triumph and sorrow for angels, One wrong more to man, one more insult to God!

Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,Or what’s a heaven for?

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made …

My sun sets to rise again.

A minute’s success pays the failure of years.

There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;….and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light...

I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

God’s in His heaven—All’s right with the world!

The rain set early in tonight,The sullen wind was soon awake,It tore the elm-tops down for spite,And did its best to vex the lake:I listened with heart fit to break.When glided in Porphyria; straightShe shut...

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.

Who hears music, feels his solitudePeopled at once.

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

Any noseMay ravage with impunity a rose.

Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character

Why stay we on earth except to grow?

In this world, who can do a thing, will not;And who would do it, cannot, I perceive:Yet the will’s somewhat — somewhat, too, the power —And thus we half-men struggle.

The gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low: And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing...

how sad and bad and mad it was – but then, how it was sweet

A lion may die of an ass’s kick.