Marty Rubin Quotes

A poet is a feeling, sentient being, not a word machine.

When an audience shares your prejudices you can always count on their applause.

My wants are so simple I don't even know what they are.

If one bite fills you, you don't need two.

The game of love is complicated, but love is not complicated.

Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out.

The real blessings come without our asking or even knowing what they are.

Love is not insatiable. What is insatiable is the need for love.

A love that requires constant attention is a doomed love.

Things put in the wrong place have found a new place.

When set out to create order, they create only misery.

Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.

Rivers are lucky. They can only move in one direction.

I owe my last breath to death but not one breath more.

If loving comes easy, nothing else seems hard.

It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.

If the light's not in you, you're in the dark.

Feelings of superiority always stem from an illusion.

Trying to be more than human one becomes less.

I have no resentments, no complaints, no ax to grind. I simply feel what I feel and do what I do.

Who gave fire permission to burn?

Open your eyes and breathe deeply. Wisdom is in the air.

To remain sane in a mad world is the true victory.

To stay sane in a mad world is the real victory.

Every line is the perfect length if you don't measure it.

To one who loves birds, morning always wakes up singing.

I still find the moon more amazing than the fact men have walked on it.

There is no end to wonder once one starts really looking.

Artists must remain in a state of awe to remain artists.

The world is endlessly fascinating to those who take the time to look.

I like paths that lead to no certain end, that keep me wondering where I am.

In my travels I found no answers, only wonders.

How often have our own tears blinded us to the tears of others.

Calling the cat stupid never made the mice wise.

We waste this life dreaming of another.

We are the mountains we must cross.

The mind's best trick is the illusion that it exists.

The day you lose your sense of wonder is the day you grow old.

Progress is discovering what you can do without.

The only real progress in any activity is to love it more and more.

The things that happen in the night are hidden even from the night.

From one dog all the dogs bark.

We all talk to ourselves. Those we call mad just talk a little louder.

The spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: emotion. Emotion is the poetry of life.

The way to live well is to feel intensely.

The problem is not that we can't answer the great questions, but that we ask them in the first place.

Beware of that demon called 'Changing The World'.

The last goose in the column is flying just as high.

There are no simple solutions to imaginary problems.

Sometimes being indifferent solves everything.