Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,It seems to me most strange that men should fear;Seeing that death, a necessary end,Will come when it will come.

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

Camille Paglia

O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!

William Shakespeare

I have come back again to where I belong; not an enchanted place, but the walls are strong.

Dorothy H. Rath

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

Wallace Stevens

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

Robert Morgan

I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society is at odds with itself.

Clint Eastwood

I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater. But he wasn't crying. Curiously, he felt too depressed to cry. Too hurt. It felt as if she'd taken the part of him that cried.

John Green

It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Carl Zwanzig

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Edmund Burke

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Wendell Phillips