Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.

To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

A pretty girl who is naked / is worth a million statues

Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it and because you are forever making poems in the lap of death Humanity i hate you

Writingis an art; and artistsare human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is