I see little hope for a peaceful world until men are excluded from the realm of foreign policy altogether and all decisions concerning international relations are reserved for women, preferably married ones.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

Warm are the still and lucky miles, White shores of longing stretch away, A light of recognition fills The whole great day, and bright The tiny world of lovers' arms. Silence invades the breathing wood Where drowsy limbs a treasure keep, Now greenly falls the learned shade Across the sleeping brows And stirs their secret to a smile. Restored! Returned! The lost are borne On seas of shipwreck home at last: See! In a fire of praising burns The dry dumb past, and we Our life-day long shall part no more.

It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.

Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.

The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.

Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.