Poetry has done enough when it charms but prose must also convince.

Author: H. L. Mencken

Also found in:

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow’s dark array, – Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.