All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.

Of all sweet passions Shame is the loveliest.

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum."(Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician)

Tell the world what you intend to do but first show it.

Each man had come to know the other's caricature as a lie.

But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.

Sadie, I can't intervene." He turned up his palms in frustration. "I told you when we first met, this isn't an actual physical body." "Shame," I mumbled. "What?" "Nothing. Go on.

I think it would be cute to marry your high school sweetheart, but I think it would also be nice to be sitting on a plane with somebody who lives across the world from you.

Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all.