Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

I'm ready for something private, private and real

The peace within can calm every stormy waves.

Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

President Bush said the other day the war is not about timetables. It's about winning. Hey, it worked in Florida.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

Pain teaches lessons no scholar can.

Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city.

Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it