Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I, But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round, Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found, - A life-complete in death-complete to die.

A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies.

Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again.

Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush.

Alas! dear Joy, the merriest, is dead. But I have wed Peace ; and our babe, a boy, New-born, is Joy.

Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind, To everyone, I pray.And may I ask you how you find Yourself, dear Lord, today?

We claim to have the light in the Church yet we want to lock ourselves within the four walls of that same Church.

The little mutton-chopped man interrupted them to point out that in his opinion good was not the avoidance of evil, but something more positive than that: it was making the world a better place.

Brown v. Board is the foundation by which all Americans can look for hope - hope for their children, hope for their families, and hope for a better future.

If you run into a psychic wall face-first, do you wind up with psychic bruises? -Clary, pg.239-

I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.

Bandara was not an easy place to return to: it could hide from the common worlds whose periphery it inhabited. But Bandara never had, in all its years, completely disappeared.

I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.

There are no articles any more that dream about the cities of tomorrow.

I write songs so that people can make them into what it means to them as well.