Something inspires the only cow of late To make no more of a wall than an open gate, And think no more of wall-builders than fools.

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sendi…

The world has room to make a bear feel free; The universe seems cramped to you and me.

It must be the brook Can trust itself to go by contraries The way I can with you - and you with me - Because we're - we're - I don't know What we are.

The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.

I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, t…

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders. ~ 37