"We must love one another or die"
- W.H. Auden
"He was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest,My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong."
"If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me."
"I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely ne..."
"Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense."
"The religious definition of truth is not that it is universal but that it is absolute."
"Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot readThe hunter's waking thoughts."
"If you want romance, fuck a journalist."
"Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before."
"Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings."