I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.

Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

Those who love, never complain, but those who don't love, always complain.

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5

Music doesn't solve your problems..but allows you to dance all over them

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

Un homme n'est rien d'autre qu'une se rie d'entreprises. A man is no other than a series of undertakings.

The TV Tropes QC page is every single idiotic comment from my forums distilled into one HTML document.

I've seen 'karma' slap people in the face. You have to be good to people. It really does come around.

I was crazy about the song "Doot Doot," so I usually love this genre of weird, European electronic.

pain always feels brand new no matter how much experience you've had with it!

Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.