Quotes from benson stella ii

And you shall seek me till you reach The tangled tide advancing, And you shall find upon the beach The traces of my dancing

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

There is the track my feet have worn By which my fate may find me: From that dim place where I was born Those footprints run behind me.

To have refused love is very much more picturesque than not to have been offered it.

Go forth with crowds; in loneliness is danger.

What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbour?

Always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.

Seek not the best, the best is better hidden.

Three things the sea shall never end, Three things shall mock its power: My singing soul, my Secret Friend, And this, my perfect hour.

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down.... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.

The sun was like an angel with a flaming sword. The angel dipped his feet into the sea.

Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable--it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.

Love is a farthing piece, a bloody bribe pressed in the palm of God and thrown away.