'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.

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.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

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.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.