My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.

Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this.

I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else.

Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ.

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.

The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.

The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves.

Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.

Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

There is nothing in Islam that is more violent than Christianity.

I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.

In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.

I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners.