Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.

Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor.

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

The future happens. No matter how much we scream.

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.

The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.

The world will never know you because you have not become a slave of your gift

To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yourself and come out of your mental limitations.

For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.

A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money to help others.

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.

A Rescuer isn't always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholism-all the ways we numb out-can rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings.

For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.

Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

God is a place of safety you can run to, but it helps if you are running to Him on a daily basis so that you are in familiar territory.