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

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.

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.

One smile relieves a heart that grieves.

I don't know who a character is till I look into their eyes.

I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.

Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on.

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

Improvement is nature.

There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

If you own a car, you change that every few years and that's just what I'm doing with my appearance

There is a different spelling between "rights" and "rites" - in other words, civic legislators and ecclesiastical councils have different responsibilities.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.

A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.