My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?”
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
tradition gives the one thing many shapes.
How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?
I spit into the face of Time That has transfigured me.
What do we know but that we face one another in this place?
And softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
My wretched dragon is perplexed.
Hearts are not to be had as a gift, hearts are to be earned.
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
There is another world, but it is in this one.
What can be explained is not poetry.
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable