Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.

Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.

I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when he is making his last revision to a new poem. The moment before, he was still only a potential poet; the moment after, he is a man who has ceased to write poetry, perhaps forever.

Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.

The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.