she shall scant show well that now shows best.

Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

Love, which teacheth me that thou and I am one

Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!

Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.

How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!

And I will make it felony to drink small beer.

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Milton, thou should'st be living at this hour.

Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."

Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet

These hoards of wealth you can unlock at will.

Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.

We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

I feel more helpless with you than without you.

Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?

What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.

The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths.

Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.

Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

You do not know just what you've been forgiven.

Where your pain is, there your heart lies also.

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.

A woman / who loves a woman / is forever young.

Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.

Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing.

The sea is as near as we come to another world.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea

My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.

There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

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