There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.
Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.
I used to build dreams about you.
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.
Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.
Uncommon things must be said in common words.
[A] major source of wealth for many families is financial assets, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and private pensions. . . . the wealthiest 5 percent of households held nearly two-thirds of all such assets in 2013