For words of rapture groping, they"Never such love," swore "ever before was!"

Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.

New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

If somebody tells me what to do, I will do my best not to do it.

Responsibility is the thing people dread the most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

If you want to be happy, you will be.

I always try to practice what I preach. I meditate for fifteen minutes every day and do yoga several times a week.

A dying man can do nothing easy.

I'm not any kind of social reformer.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

Once you've had enough and you can't do it anymore, you consider the possibility that there might be a better way. That's when your head cracks open and God comes in.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.