Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

You are a Universe of Universes And your Soul a source of Songs.

The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing: there is no pain as great as being alive, no burden heavier than that of conscious life.

I seek a form that my style cannot discover,a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.

The treacheries of ambition never cease.

Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.

Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!

When you want something to move out of your life, don't focus on it. Give attention to what you want.

Above all, art should be fun.

In U.S. elections, the term "October surprise" has come to mean an event in the closing weeks or days of a presidential campaign that could affect or even alter the outcome.

At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play.

Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

Betrayal would be a different sort of sick.

Don't jack off a cactus, you'll only hurt your hand and the cactus' feelings