Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.

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.

The world was not to be trusted. Loved persons were always stolen. Dreams always squashed. That was life as she understood it.

Stop acting so small, you are as big as the universe!!!!!!!!

I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.

I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something.

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.

What sort of champion would I be if I just stayed in my normal weight division and didn't take the big challenges on? Bring them on, that's what Ricky Hatton's all about.

Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.