All I know is a door into the dark

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

Sometimes I think everyone's an attorney.

In the midst of life we are in death, '" said Miss Ophelia.

I personally think Prague is more romantic than Paris. If you have a girlfriend, take her there.

Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

The fickle populace always change with the prince.

No encounter, mouth open up ... that is how the drug businesses see the general public.

The three of us pitched in $15,000 a piece to get it started.

I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all.