Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith

God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

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.

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.