“Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.”

“I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays its no good being a cabbage unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itsel...”

“As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.”

“There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.”

“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.”

“There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.”

“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”

“I once met a woman who'd been in therapy... and it seemed like the big thing she'd learned was to ignore everything she thought in the first hour of the day. That's when the negative stuff will try...”

“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.”