Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by.

Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.

New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

Live well, Laugh often, Love much.

Trust Begins In TRUth, even if the Truth is about how you broke my trust.

Well, if they set you in the kissing booth, let me know, I am always willing to donate for a worthy cause.

The problem at Wimbledon seems to be that the club has suffered a loss of complacency.

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.

There's something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.

It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

It were a grief so brief to part with thee. Farewell.