Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Aldous Huxley

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

David Hobson

This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.

Thomas E. Lawrence

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Oscar Wilde

Never let a problem to be solved, become more important than a person to be loved.

Thomas S. Monson

I think that if Republicans are given the reins of leadership in the House or Senate or both, we will have to govern in a way - at least put forward solutions whether or not the president goes along with them or not, that deal with these long-term challenges.

John Thune

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Jean Cocteau

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

Dick Clark

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Claiborne Pell

How can I die? I'm booked.

George Burns

The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

Victor Hugo

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

William Shakespeare