(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Mark Strand

A man is only as good as what he loves.

Saul Bellow

Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.

Jean Paul

The government invented the Internet.

Jon Meacham

Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also dissolved, some in shorter and others in longer periods. They are carried around the Sun; an important occurrence in itself.

Galileo Galilei

Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn.

Kalidasa

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

Doris Humphrey

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Nicholas Boileau

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

Philip James Bailey

Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.

John Buchan

The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.

Patricia Briggs

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Kurt Vonnegut