Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire.

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.

At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

It is a blessed gift to witness the beauty of each day.

My wife cooks. I can't cook. I can remix leftovers pretty good, though.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The Liberal Party abandoned the principles of reform and social liberalism and has become, instead, just another piece of political machinery in the service of corporatism.

Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.

A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.

The factor that makes people extremely vulnerable to enslavement is the lack of the rule of law.

I like to say I'm not a hero. I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.