Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Robert Alexander Schumann

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

English Proverb

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

Emily Dickinson

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

Jeffery Deaver

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

Thomas Lynch

By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, but music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night and his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.

William Shakespeare

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake.

John Milton

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

Andrea Dworkin

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

Benito Mussolini

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Irving Layton

No memory is ever alone it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

Louis L'Amour

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

Doug Coupland