Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?

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.

The universe requires balance. Nothing, nothing, can exist without it. There is no life, no light, without death, without darkness. There is no memory… without emptiness.

Those who do not preach life but live it do not smile to the lily near the bank

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.

What do you know? She liked to be told she was scary. Kinky.

I knew South Africa was going to change; you can't keep people down forever. It's unnatural. Somehow something had to crack, and it did.

I watch people all day long on Instagram, I take part in it too. It's like if you get the piece first, you have to immediately be like "BAH!" stunting.

One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask.

And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world.