Poetry makes nothing happen.

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.

You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

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.

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.