With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

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.

politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

Character primarily is honesty with God, ones-self, and others."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

Primary revelation came through Jesus Christ, and I find it distasteful that additional divine finger prints should appear in nature.

The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

Mean comedy is not really something that I personally gravitate towards or something that I do.

I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.

As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.