fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while

Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat

A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.

From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.