There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.

It has been said that a poem should not mean but be. This is not quite accurate. In a poem, as distinct from many other kinds of verbal societies, meaning and being are identical. A poem might be called a pseudo-person. Like a person, it is unique and addresses the reader personally. On the other hand, like a natural being and unlike a historical person, it cannot lie.