I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke