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"Pygmalion to Galatea" from Poems 1914-1926 (1927).
Poems

Quoted in Richard Ellman A Long the Riverrun: Selected Essays (1988), p. 253

But these are the qualities of women! And we know that a Circle is a higher Being than a Straight Line, in so far as knowledge and wisdom are more to be esteemed than mere affection.</p><p>SPHERE. It is not for me to classify human faculties according to merit. Yet many of the best and wisest in Spaceland think more of the affections than of the understanding, more of your despised Straight Lines than of your belauded Circles. But enough of this. Look yonder...</p>
Source: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), PART II: OTHER WORLDS, Chapter 18. How I came to Spaceland, and What I Saw There
“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”
Source: On Death and Dying (1969), Ch. 9

“My past, O Lord, to Your mercy; my present, to Your love; my future to Your providence.”