The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.

New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

One smile relieves a heart that grieves.

It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.

Still the hottest angel I know," he murmured. "It's beyond me how you're still on staff.

It is better to love every person, than to wait for one person to love you.

Everybody likes pizza! It's a quick and easy clean-up meal

Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.

I think that was the smartest thing [immigration policy], he [Donald Trump] is done in his whole campaign there .

You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

In the gospel, we discover we are far worse off than we thought, and far more loved than we ever dreamed.

Greatness knows itself.