The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.

New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

Writing is like daydreaming through your fingers.

Look around you, something is behind you. find it whether it's me or your Shadow

The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the

The beast that goes alwaies never wants blowes.

All we can do is go about our work. But we can have a goal. We can have a dream.

...Jake, a homosexual cop buried so deep in the closet he didn't know where to look for himself.

Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes things and makes things grow, and no one tells you what's going on.

I'm an emotional person. I love music that moves me and makes the hair on my arms stand up. And I want the same thing in relationships. Either you can keep up or you can't.

No man can go to Heaven, but everyman can build one!

As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.