A person is a process, one that leads to death.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

We can't tell our life from our wish

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.

The world is full of educated derelicts

Too many memories of her were crammed inside of me, and as soon as one of them found the slightest opening, the rest would force their way out in an endless stream, an unstoppable flood.

Nothing embarrassing, but hopefully I can call myself a gentleman because of my father.

I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.

If I never am better then Kanye, in my brain, I'm always going to be trying to be, forever and ever until the day that I die.

Things may not be logical or fair, but when God is directing the events of our lives, they are right.

Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm.

Mastery is the natural result of mindfulness.

Prompt to move but firm to wait - knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.