Dreams have as much influences as actions.

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

I’ve heard the name before: Anubis. An Egyptian name. The name of a god.The god of the dead.

Learn from your mistakes but expect your enemies to learn from theirs.

Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

I have to look at our staff and ask the hard question - Would I hire them again?

And the prince who had once been a bear pulled close the girl who had once had no name, and kissed her.

I promptly said that life was a random series of beautifully composed vignettes, loosely tied together by a string of characters and time.

When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'

Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith.