I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.

For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.

Half to forget the wandering and pain, Half to remember days that have gone by, And dream and dream that I am home again!

I look down the farthest side of the mountain, fulfilled and understanding all, and truly content that I lived a full life and one that was my own choice

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars!

For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.

But have you wine and music still,And statues and a bright-eyed love,And foolish thoughts of good and ill,And prayers to them who sit above?

For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and strong.

When the great markets by the sea shut fastAll that calm Sunday that goes on and on:When even lovers find their peace at last,And Earth is but a star, that once had shone.

The main condition for our success is undoubtedly for us to abide in God

When we don’t have way to express our feelings then at odds in choosing way and every path of life shows gloomy image.

How ironic it would be, to die at his hands while trying to save him, when he first came to me because he was trying to save me.

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

Sometimes I wonder how you can stand being just a dog..." "You play with the cards you're dealt... Whatever that means.

It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].

No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.

There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.

I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.

In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell