My creed is love and you are its only tenet.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

I thank the Lord daily for His glorious blessings.

You are not responsible for the reader, you're only responsible for what you are writing.

Hook your audience with a tiny snag of truth, and the Holy Spirit will unravel the rest.

I hate to take compromises with a racing car. The more standard a car is, the more compromises you have to take.

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.