Blasphemy itself could not survive religion; if anyone doubts that, let him try to blaspheme Odin.
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget. / For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet.
The trouble about always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it.
We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head -- and it is his head that splits.
If an angel out of heaven / Brings you other things to drink, / Thank him for his kind attentions, / Go and pour them down the sink.
