Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

No one could teach you to be you... until now!

The man that is meant to love you will have a million questions about you, but none will ever ask your value.

Interestingly, water in a bottle never knows that the bottle gives him the shape, same like those people in the system!!!!

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

Perhaps we have to remember that there are forms of outrage that do not lead to any sort of mobilization, and there are ways of "registering the facts" that do not lead to outrage.

Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.

The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion.

That which an enraged woman can accomplish.