Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.

Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.

Just that sons and fathersAre like mirrors and daughters are soft

No one can ever foresee the future Sonya. You can only judge what's up ahead based on the conditions of the present. Remember that.

When I was a little kid, I realized that if you say any word over and over fast enough, it loses all it's meaning.

A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.

When you decide to be something, you can be it.

The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.

Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.

Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

True Leaders do not manipulate others they INSPIRE them.