The candle glimmers but an hour. The night Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know The tragedy of human love and need? Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!

Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty and mystery and be glad.

A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

The cool, grey city of love.

Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper what their roots had found. (“A Dream of Fear”)

And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (“The Testimony of the Suns”)

What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep!

As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)

O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life! (“The Testimony of the Suns”)

And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science")

And fragile is thy tenure of this worldStill haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.("To Science")

Age doesn't mean Maturity but Senescence

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

I've done a lot of growing up and realized a lot of things.

I love having fun! Why not?

When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.

We must look a long time before we can see

We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own.

Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.