 The two poetic quotations that adorn the Professors apartment are  from two sources. The quotation above the "wonderwall" itself is  from first two stanzas of the final section ("The Departure") of  Alfred Lord Tennysons "The Daydream", a retelling of the Sleeping  Beauty Legend. The other is from near the beginning of "An End," by  Christina Rossetti; this poem begins "Love, strong as death, is  dead..."