Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!
I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.
I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.
Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.
What does not change is the will to change
Knowledge is the harvest of attention
I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.
He is dead now, but he meant well.
The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.
Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.
If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.