it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.

Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.

I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.