To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Haikus are easy, But sometimes they don't make sense. Refrigerator.
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then...I contradict myself. I am large...I contain multitudes.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.
I kneel in the nights before tigers that will not let me be. What you were will not happen again. The tigers have found me and I do not care.