“Fortune befriends the bold.”

“Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.”

“I took my Power in my Hand --And went against the World --'Twas not so much as David -- had --But I -- was twice as bold --I aimed by Pebble -- but MyselfWas all the one that fell --Was it Goliath -- was too large --Or was myself -- too small?”

“The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise.”

“Die geliebt werden, können nicht sterben, denn Liebe bedeutet Unsterblichkeit.  ”

“Narcotics cannot still the ToothThat nibbles at the soul --”

“My dying tutor told me that he would like to live till I had been a poet, but Death was much of Mob as I could master-then-And when far afterward-a sudden light on Orchards, or a new fashion in the wind troubled my attention- I felt a palsy, here- the Verses just relieve-" (174)”