I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.

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.

How can you tell? That I like books, I mean.The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.

Painting a picture is writing a poem with paint.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart.

Is your work an interpretation of your understanding of reality, or is it simply a picture of your feelings?

I expect that everything I do will be not watched or not seen. That way, I'm never disappointed when I become flooded with that reality.

I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.