A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.

New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

I look around the room and can't help but think about how it is the little things we look back on in life. I wonder how often people think that they should pay more attention to them.

It is too bad that most Olympians do not train as hard as the Lashkar jihadis whose main aim in life is to kill people.

I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.

I get sent a lot of scripts where you're just the mom.

Every man should have the right to choose their destiny.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go... it's like a dead flower.

Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

I have fears, but I do not fear anything or anybody on the court.

A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.