A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

Never mind those failures till yesterday. Each new day is a sequel of a wonderful life

Whatever draws the mind outward is unspiritual and whatever draws the mind inward is spiritual

When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.

My mother was a huge Steelers fan, so they were my team growing up.

You cant put the toothpaste back in the tube.

I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die.

Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.

I do a pretty good job at casting actually.

Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!

Sweet are the uses of adversity