Guns, grendels, or nuclear bombs; take your pick.
What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
Never despair. [Nil desperandum. ]
Everything affects my poetry, every day something happens that changes me forever. I’m susceptible and plastic, thin-skinned and moody.
If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.
Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk.
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.