Don't put your confidence in big names When they die and return to the dirt they can't do anything for you.
Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.
Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.
The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.
The sky is more beautiful than earth, and I want the sky, not earth.
We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.
Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.
