But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?

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.

I wouldn't serve a God who wouldn't speak to me.George Foreman

Solidarity was admirable

Ironically, when I was playing in my first band, I would deliberately not write down any lyrics. I have a really good memory and I would just keep them in my head.

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

There are two emotions: love and fear.

Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Trouble that is easily recognized is half-cured.