I am in the world feeling my way to light ‚amid the encircling gloom.‘

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.

Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever. I’m not really book-smart.

I am the freest author in the world.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

America is the greatest country in the world.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

My musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It’s not forced; I do what comes natural to me. Sometimes, I like to be dark… other times, I like to be really light and ladylike.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.