Dear beauteous Death! the jewel of the just...

There are strange Hells within the minds War made. - Ivor Gurney, 'Strange Hells'

And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love. - Walt Whitman 'Dirge For Two Veterans'

I am the Smoke King. I am black! I am swinging in the sky, I am wringing worlds awry. - W. E. B. DuBois - 'The Song of The Smoke'

My days are but the tombs of buried hours; / Which tombs are hidden in the piled years; / But from the mounds there spring up many flowers, / Whose beauty well repays their cost of tears. Isaac Rosenberg, 'My Days'

Man differs more from man than man from beast.

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book.

The simple lack / Of her is more to me / Than others' presence. Edward Thomas, 'The Unknown'

The best reading of a poem involves a simultaneous engagement of the eye and ear.