Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech.

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

Beauty without the beloved is a like a sword through the heart.

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell.

You have been mine before - How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar, your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, - I knew it all of yore.

It is beautiful, the world, and life itself. I am glad I have lived.

Places that are empty of you are empty of life.

The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness!

If God in his wisdom have brought closeThe day when I must die,That day by water or fire or airMy feet shall fall in the destined snareWherever my road may lie.

Her hair that lay along her back Was yellow like ripe corn.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.

O my mistress, do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike!

I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home.

Faith allows me to feel that as long as I'm in line with God everything will be O.K. and that I'll make it through whatever.

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

I'm uncomfortable trying to rush change of perception, except to the extent that I'm going to write a book.

Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

You have to believe in yourself every day.

I run and do a lot of push-ups and eat healthy.

I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.