Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

Hell is truth seen too late.

I don’t think much about guys from the past. I’m glad I knew them, but there’s a reason they didn’t make it into my future.

All the roles are for boys. The girls' roles are either small or all the same. There's just nothing interesting.

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

I thought comedians had to have black on their faces or red beards.

When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.

Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.

It's not bad to get blocked, it's terrible to stay blocked

I'm as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging you.