Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.

The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.

Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.

Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

Tomorrow's fast becoming our Past.

The external only creates dependency.

Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.

Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every peopled sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.

...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?

Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.

Once you're heterosexual and comfortable with that, you don't need to take out an announcement every day.