Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy, ” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.

It's YOUR health. Don't leave up to someone else.

It's a struggle but you have to keep going.

It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy.

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.

Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me

I will get America working again and see rising take-home pay again.

Politics always change. Stories never do.

Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.