'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, ' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

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.

You don't get strong by standing at the finish line, you get strong with every step you take to get there.

No poison can kill quicker than bitterness

Pain is pain, babe. Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less.

Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence secretiveness or sudden outburst.

Cooking is great, love is grand, but soufflés fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

Divinity cannot be perceived through your brain, unless and until this light of your spirit shines into it.

Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.

A lot of music comes from a selfish place.