I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about!

The sun was boiling, the swaying was uncomfortable, the horse stank. She felt wonderful

As we face the cross, then, we can say to ourselves both, “I did it, my sins sent him there, ” and “He did it, his love took him there.

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

When you have the most votes of anybody that tells you where the party is. I think the party got lost to a certain extent.

Keep your chin up. No one expected you to save the world, otherwise you would have been born wearing a cape and tights. Just do the best you can.

As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.

Gentlemen, include me out.

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.