What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

There is no end to the deceits of the past.

Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.

There is too little courtship in the world.

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.

Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.

things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.

I always think that if I'm with somebody, they're better than me. That's why I love them. They're amazing.

No science ever defends its first principles.

The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.

When I first began writing music I was really inspired by the French electro scene.

This is fusion, when two people become one. They are so close and so well suited to each other that they blend together. They merge and can't live without each other after that.

In Heaven you're going to be the same make, but a new model!

Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Low-income people everywhere will be at risk of food insecurity due to loss of assets, absence of alternative livelihood options and lack of adequate insurance coverage from extreme weather events.

I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.

Bringing people together is one of my favorite things... I believed that's what a rock 'n' roll Jesus would really do - bring people together through music.