“Time is a storm in which we are all lost.”

“The business of love is cruelty which,by our wills, we transform to live together.”

“But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi.”

“That which is possible is inevitable.”

“At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts usto make roses stand before thorns. Surelove is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse—at least, blinded by the light, young love is. But we are older,I to love and you to be loved, we have,no matter how, by our wills survived to keepthe jeweled prize always at our finger tips.We will it so and so it is past all accident.”

“beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.”

“Rot dead marigolds- an acre at a time! Gold are you?”