To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

We can't tell our life from our wish

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.'- All my old loves will be returned to me

In all of your living, don't forget to live.

Today, take a dive in a beautiful, calm, tranquil lake of peace.

Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.

For Beatrice- When we were together I felt breathless. Now you are.

No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth.

Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?

Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now.

I guessed his name was Face of Horror. I wondered how long it had taken his mom to think of that. Bob? No. Sam? No. How about Face of Horror?

Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.