Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.

The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.

All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

My heart has become as hard as a city street, the horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, all day long and all night long they beat, they ring like the hooves of time.

I'm afraid I wasn't much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous.

O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.

Remember, It doesn't matter what you can do, what really matters is what you will do.

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

Power will always attract the greedy and the weak.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

I'm very selfish! I'm only thinking about how I would look in clothes, and not how we as a society might appear in those clothes.

The greatest thing in life is health.

I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.