“What makes a poet is, surely, the love of these things, a desperate search for the tiny ray of sunshine which used to flicker on the floor of a child’s bedroom.”

“You, sir, are a ray of sunshine.
-Percy Jackson”

“love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.”

“Sunshine cannot bleach the snow,
Nor time unmake what poets know.”

“I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers.”

“It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.”

““Do you know what this is?
“The floor, Miss?”
“Dust! I read about it—tiny particles of matter.””

“It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.”

“Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.”

“Love is a boy by poets styl'd;
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.”