Poems List

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.

Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason.

Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

After I die, wherever my spirit goes, I'm going to try to get back and visit my skeleton at least once a year, because, 'Hey, old buddy, how's it going'

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.

Anastasia was madly jealous of me because I was taller than she was. As the daughter of the Emperor she thought she ought to tower over everyone.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

Soon all of us will go to moon on trade union holidays

Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

... We had breakfast at Father's. I ate 4 pancakes...''

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. 'That was fun,' I said. 'You bet it was,' said Nick. 'Let's climb higher.' 'No,' I said. 'I think we should be heading back now.' 'We have time,' Nick insisted. I said we didn't, and Nick said we did. We argued back and forth like that for about 20 minutes, then finally decided to head back. I didn't say it was an interesting story.

Love is Light and it has no end. Love is great suffering. It cannot eat, it cannot sleep. It is mixed with sin in equal parts. And yet it is better to love. In love one can be mistaken, and through suffering he expiates for his mistakes.

God will surely help us and we will meet again in better times.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

My dear grandmother, we enjoy ourselves so much on our beloved Standart. Every day we go ashore with papa. Maria, Anastasia, and Aleksei go spearately. Olga and I go with papa, as papa walks a great deal, and Aleksei and the boys march up and down by the shore.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.