There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is...

If I was meant to be controlled, I would have come with a remote.

Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the world. ... the decadent aestheticiz...

fear of change is like standing under a hot shower and knowing the moment you'll turn it off you'll be freezing cold

Be like seeds; do not see dirt thrown at you as your enemy, but as ground to grow.

Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me your poetry.

People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

Be courageous enough to learn from failures and bold enough to begin anew.

knowledge without application is like a book that is never read' Christopher Crawford, Hemel Hempstead.

A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.

I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.

The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

Why then was he taking her? Was it merely for his own amusement- or was it for some other, more sinister reason? After all, only two days before she'd seen him kill a footman in cold blood. Of course...

What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?

There's nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if I am not to have the keeping of your heart, then there is not other I would r...

The trouble with him was that he was without imagination.