Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

We fall many times. But we find strength within to rise again.

Just being a human being, I’ve realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you could’ve just said no.

He (Daedalus) would follow that bearing, the sun on his shoulders and the past slipping away.

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

Well, it takes all kinds to make a mess.

Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.

I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top.

Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!