Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.

The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.

A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.

The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.

Little Jesus, was Thou shy Once, and just so small as I? And what did it feel like to be Out of Heaven, and just like me?

On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it.

It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

I was at Harvard with a whole bunch of poets, and that was very rare. They published a lot of books because there was an excitement after the war that translated into poetry.

Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level.

Human beings are inherently endowed with the power to bring out the best possible results from the worst possible circumstances.

The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

When I lived in Jamaican I lived in Kingston, in Spanish Town, and when I go there the only place I want to go is Kingston because that's where the culture is the richest.

You make me proud to spell my name woman... you make me proud to be your friend.