Woe is me! The winged words on which my soul would pierce Into the heights of love's rare universe, Are chains of lead around its flight of fire-- I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.

Take what's useful, discard what is not.

Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.

It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.

I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.

You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write.

You should quit trying only after two conditions have been met: 1.) You've given yourself a legitimate shot. 2.) Trying is no longer fun.

Doing what you want to do is life.

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.