“For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.”— Walter de la Mare, The Old SummerhouseShare
“Without imagination of the one kind or the other, mortal existence is indeed a dreary and prosaic business.”— Walter de la MareShare
“It's a very odd thing— As odd as can be— That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T.”— Walter de la MareShare
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”— AristotleShare
“Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end.”— Albert CamusShare
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”— C.S. LewisShare
“Ye are better than all the ballads that ever were sung or said; for ye are living poems, and all the rest are dead.”— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowShare
“There be none of Beauty's daughters with a magic like thee; and like music on the waters is thy sweet voice to me.”— Lord ByronShare
“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our…”— Nelson MandelaShare
