Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
What man calls civilization always results in deserts.
You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.