The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.

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.

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.

Three Ps that I can't sacrifice: Process, Purpose, and Principles.

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

I'm not choosing, but I'm running out of fight.

It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

My house seems remarkably full of people," he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.

Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.

Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone.

I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range.

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.