My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.

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.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.

The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.

I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?

The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.

Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.

I've dreamed of this a thousand times before But in my dreams I couldn't love you more I will give you my heart Until the end of time... You're all I need, my love, my Valentine

People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.

When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it.

This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word.