“Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.”

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

The monster London laugh at me.

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay

Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.

Life is an incurable disease.

But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.

:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.

The present is all the ready money Fate can give.

A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame

Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire

Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.

Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.

The present is an eternal now.

Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.

It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.

It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I’ve overcome the world.

I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don’t want to keep making the same record over and over and over.

Anyone who has ever walked upright has loved beer, celebrated over it, told talks over it, hatched plots over it, courted over it.

Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!