You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty - Which draws us together.

I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

No bad man can be a good poet.

He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.

How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.