Hate is a fear, and fear is rot That cankers root and fruit alike, Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not, Strike with no madness when you strike.

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.

I read nonfiction for information, fiction for truth.

Each of us has our reference point and as a Christian the reference point by which I measure my life and thought is the Bible.

I know I tackled something big, new, and scary and I survived.

I don't wear leather, wool, or silk.

Men who love themselves hate those who would dim their glory.

Everybody needs a place they can go to rest, sheltered from the past and the future. A place you can live one moment at a time.

Good is no hermit. It has ever neighbors.

I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.

Everybody needs a seashell in her bathroom to remind her the ocean is her home.

The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited.