Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one

You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

Life is a picnic on a precipice.