Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.

Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

Today will die tomorrow.

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget.

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.

A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.

When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

A [Donald] Trump win might be bad for stocks, but it would be very positive for the dollar and Treasurys.

I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war.

No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

I 'aint a killer but don't push me.

Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale.

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?

The most important things are that you are honest with yourself and that making music comes from your heart

God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.