There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or later; namely: novelty, novelty, novelty.

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Coquetry is the champagne of love.

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.

Talent can take you so far

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

I feel I do what I love, and the fools pay me for it.

Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on

Islam is an ideology and there's a religious component to it that's radicalized and in some cases it masks itself behind that religion, especially in America, because of freedom of religion.

According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse."