On Love:
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
He was a winter wind,
Concerned with ice and snow,
Dead weeds and unmated birds,
And little of love could know.
(From: Wind And Window Flower)
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
On Life:
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.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
The life is not yet all gone out of it.
(From: The Generations Of Men)
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary then your grammar and your punctuation… Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you’re going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that.
On Knowledge:
Piling up knowledge is as bad as piling up money. You have to begin sometime to kick around what you know.