we write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. we plant purple prose in our gardens and snip the adverbs only to threa...
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaf...
I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew bu...
Poetry rhymes, a song our souls need to nourish upon. Poetry is a drum, a sound our bodies wish to have. Poetry is organized, a reading our eyes wish to view. Poetry is refined, a structure our moral selves seek. Poetry is civil, instigating the worl...
Locks can not be made from good iron, soldiers are not made out of good people.
If it feels good saying it. It's probably not a good thing to say.
If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.
I guess sometimes fear is a good thing. It's a really good motivator.
The clubs are good fun-having a laugh, really having a good time.
In the company of the good we become good.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
What is good for the buffalo is good for the cow.
I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, t...
A good husband makes a good wife.
A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
I love helping out good people who are doing good things.
If I look good then I feel good and if I feel good, then I'll fight good.
It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.
Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
