Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass Their pleasures in a long immortal dream.

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.

A sleeping fox counts hens in his dreams.

I've come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.

Success is unpredictable and fragile.

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.

My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.

It's easy to feel equal to wanting. It's rare to feel equal to having.

Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain.

It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship." "It's awful worse luck not to.

The idea of Marilyn Manson has been brewing in my head, one form or another, since I was about 12 years old at a Christian high school in Canton, Ohio.

I do think it's important to be honest about your feelings in a long term relationship because it's totally human to be attracted to other people. It's just about what you do about that attraction.