Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as the dead.

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.

To know your purpose, you must identify yourself in the world and know who you are in the world

Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively.

Merkel is an amazing woman, very experienced in international politics.

It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion.

I learned a long time ago that it doesn't make me less of a woman because my babies come out of a different place. My C-sections have been fine.

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

I'm a "what you see is what you get" kind of guy. I don't have any time to be showing anybody any bag of tricks.

Be willing to absorb some risk and failures to allow people freedom to express themselves.

A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.