The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

You need a good, healthy diet - it's about finding out what your body needs. Sugar is a disaster for skin, as is white flour.

The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.

It is a pity that many Christians have the TV schedule better memorized than a single chapter for God's precious Word.

You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.

I think any time you're at the end of a trip you're usually pretty ready to come home and start working regularly again.

Football is simple. You are in time or too late. When you are too late, you should start sooner.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

It is impossible to achieve the aim without suffering.

I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.