With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary else?

Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.

Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.

There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again.

Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain?

Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity.

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers.

There is no death. The thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life.

There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time.

The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.

Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes.

So many celebrity websites you go to are so sterile that you know they just pay somebody to do it and there's not even an ounce of them in it.

Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.

Here's to opening and upward... and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.

There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.

A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "He was a man; sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man." I love that line.

A library is the door to many lives.