The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.

I fear that someday you will abandon the joys we share and find another not worthy of your charms.

The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.

The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom.

I've always liked fashion but maybe not to the point that I was so sick about it that I wanted to draw my own things.

Would you care to walk to the river?” -Miles “I would love to walk anywhere with you." -Amber

I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. Theres a lot of cool stuff in there all the heartbreak of the country darkness.

It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.

I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.