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

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.

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.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

The devil's favorite place to hide is on the other side of love!

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

What man is a man who does not make the world better.

I didnt really have an agenda for my talent. I just wanted to be able to sing.

I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.

A kinsman in trouble had to be saved, not blamed; anger against a brother was felt in the flesh, not in the bone.

Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.

I would never join a country club with standards so low as to allow me as a member.

The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.

The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must be realized.