I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and no other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me.

Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

Today will die tomorrow.

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget.

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.

A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.

When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

Frank (Frank Sinatra) is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine?

If you never get criticized, chances are you aren't getting anything done.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

Hollywood, we decided, was a nice place to die, but we wouldn't want to live there.

Are we going to do any thinking today, or is it going to be all math?

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

I don't really plan. I just see what happens.

If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.