Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.

Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.

I have two eyes, and I go to see the ice.

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.

Committees do harm merely by existing.

Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.

Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.

If you are looking for vocations, as a community have adoration every day. Once the Missionaries of Charity started daily adoration, their vocations doubled

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.