It is the logic of our times,No subject for immortal verse-That we who lived by honest dreamsDefend the bad against the worse.

It is the logic of our times,
No subject for immortal verse-
That we who lived by honest dreams
Defend the bad against the worse.

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.

The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

There are no ordinary people. You have never spoken to a mere mortal. Natures, civilizations, cultures, arts, these are mortal. But it is with immortals that we work, joke, snub, marry, exploit.

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.