The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

I never knew I liked to be outside so much. I never knew I liked lochs and views and that, but I could seriously handle living in a cottage by the side of somewhere like this."The Panopticon

On the blank page all things are possible.

There's many a good tune played by an old banjo.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.

At all events there is in Brooklyn something that makes me feel at home.

She looks at me. She does. She.

Life I love you, all is groovy.

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.