Poems List

There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn.

The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

Have a strong mind and a soft heart.

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.

Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.

Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.

Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities? For we have too much likeness as it is, and if an explorer should come back and bring word of other sexes looking through the branches of other trees at other skies, nothing would be of greater service to humanity; and we should have the immense pleasure into the bargain of watching Professor X rush for his measuring-rods to prove himself superior.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or our country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

I think that spending each moment of two minutes in God is much better than spending each moment of two days in hospital.

A person who is true to himself likes and loves others for what they are and not what they have.