Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Into each life some rain must fall.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

Anyone who interferes with the Personal Legend of another thing will never discover his own.

I mulled over what he had told me as I savored the Scotch. Not bad, really — like a beer that’s been in a brawl.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.

An ill agreement is better then a good judgement. [An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.]

We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.

Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.

One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

I can hear her thunder, she's coming after me, thunder thighs.