Thomas Sturge Moore

"For milkmaids and queens and gipsy-princesses Dream and kiss blindfold or starve upon guesses."

"Break free, my soul, good manners are thy tomb!"

"In my opinion Mr. Moore is a greater poet than Mr. Yeats. He has lived obscurely, and has not displayed Mr. Yeatss talent for self-dramatization; for these reasons and others he has never become a public figure or a popular writer."

"Shells with lip, or tooth, or bleeding gum, Tell-tale shells, and shells that whisper Come, Shells that stammer, blush, and yet are dumb – " "O let me hear!"

"Then, cleaving the grass, gazelles appear (The gentler dolphins of kindlier waves) With sensitive heads alert of ear; Frail crowds that a delicate hearing saves."