John Holmes
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.Collection: Poetry
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.Collection: Peace
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.Collection: Dog
The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.Collection: Success
I liked the rain. It made it harder, the harder the better. I didn't see accidents but there are a lot of broken cars out there.Collection: Rain
And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.Collection: Life
To be beat is to be at the bottom of your personality, looking up.Collection: Personality