Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we wer….

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation..

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed..

My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain..

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at night, An….

Time is a kind friend, he will make us old..

My theory is that poems are written because of a state of emotional irritation. It may be present for some time before the poet is conscious of what ….

What we have never had, remains; It is the things we have that go..

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth..

My heart is a garden tired with autumn..

Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's fac….

Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kep….

Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass..

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes..

One by one, like leaves from a tree, / All my faiths have forsaken me..

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy..

I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to me a bit..

Only by love is life made real..

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break..

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise..

I am not yours, nor lost in you, not lost, although I long to be. Lost as a candle lit at noon, lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I fi….