-Let all your thinks be thanks.
-The basic stimulus to intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.
-Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.
-Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.
-You owe it to us all to get on with what you’re good at.
-All we are not stares back at what we are.
-In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
-Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh.
-We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and see our illusions die.
-For the error bred in the bone
Of each woman and each man
Craves what it cannot have,
Not universal love
But to be loved alone.
-To make one, there must be two.
-Only as I am, can I love you as yourself.
-We must love one another or die.
-If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.
-Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return.
-Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine good.
-Life remains a blessing
Although you cannot bless.
-Now is the age of anxiety.
-I smell blood in an era of prominent madmen.
-The wolves will get you if the moths won’t.
-In headaches and in worry
Vaguely life leaks away,
And Time will have his fancy
Tomorrow or today.
-Let not Time deceive you
You cannot conquer Time.
-Death is the distant thunder at a picnic.
-Looking up at the stars,
I know quite well
That for all they care,
I can go to hell.
-For who can bear to feel oneself forgotten?
-All time reading is time well-spent.
-Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.
-A real book is not the one we read, but one that reads us.
-I write because I love to play with language.
-The underlying reason for writing is to bridge the gulf between a person and another.
-Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think.
-We were put on this earth to make things.
-A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
-As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one’s language from corruption.
-One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
-Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
-Drama is based on the mistake.
-Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we would always worship false gods.
-There must be two kinds of art: escapist-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that which shall teach man to unlearn hate and learn love.
-We are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don’t know.