Soon the purple dark must bruise Lily and bleeding-heart and rose, And the little Cupid lose Eyes and ears and chin and nose

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever-- Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.

There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago.

Go then, O my inseperable, this once more,

Seen from the point of view of a lie, the truth is often touted as radical.

Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.

My new years resolution? I will be less laz.

I’m as old as both of you,” she said, even though she suspected she wasn’t, “and I’m smarter, and I can probably fight as well as you can.

Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it's true about poems, too.

I see something new in 'Gosford Park' every time I watch it.

Prayer is - keeping company with God.

This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same.