For Art alone is great:The bust survives the state, The crown the potentate.

And of a Sunday swarm the folkUnder the honeysuckle vine, Quaffing, the while they talk and smoke, The sun, the melody, the wine.

Things perish. Gods have passed.But song sublimely castShall citadels outlast.

Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected. I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm.

He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.

I'm simply reminding you that you're worth more than what you'll find at the bottom of a bottle.

The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice isn't present in a relationship, you don't matter.

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

As for the heart It needs a beginning The narrative Burden of events

When it comes to climate and energy, Gates is a radical consumerist. In his view, energy consumption is good - it just needs to be clean energy.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction.

He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.