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

“Love is the energy of life.”

“how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet”

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

“My sun sets to rise again.”

“Who hears music, feels his solitudePeopled at once.”

“Theres no value in digging shallow wells in a hundred places. Decide on one place and dig deep. Even if you encounter a rock, use dynamite and keep going down. If you leave that to dig another well...”

“Why does everyone see me as a sink when I am an ocean?”

“There are not enough days in forever to allow me to fully express the depth of my love for you.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“Im not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. Ive seen a chunk of the universe, true, but theres still so much more to see. I doubt Ill ever cure t...”

“My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,My gentle guide, in following thee.”

“Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmonious...”