The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.

If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.

Gin and drugs, dear lady, gin and drugs.

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.