“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
Love“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.”
Work“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
Love“Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.”
Business“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
Work“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
Wisdom“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.”
Great“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Education“I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.”
History“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Life“The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.”
Best“You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.”
Freedom“Freedom lies in being bold.”
Freedom“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
Poetry“Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.”
Life“I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.”
Alone“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.”
Life“It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.”
Funny“The artist in me cries out for design.”
Design“There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.”
Great“I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.”
Fear“The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.”
Power