"Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despairRise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more."
"But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me,And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’dTo dwell in presence of immortal youth,Immortal age beside immortal youth,And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus"
"HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'..."
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
"Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world."
"The shell must break before the bird can fly."