Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

James Ross Clemens, a cousin of mine, was seriously ill two or three weeks ago in London, but is well now. The report of my illness grew out of his illness; the report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

Sir Christopher Wren

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.

Thomas Kempis

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

Thomas A. Edison

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Elbert Hubbard

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Love without conversation is impossible.

Mortimer Adler

Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.

Sherwood Anderson

Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic.

Katharine McPhee

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Desiderius Erasmus

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

Patti Smith

I am a Marxist... of the Groucho tendency.

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