I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.

Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe.

The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.

What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light.

Let us listen to the voices of our Forebears ... In the smoky cabin, souls that wish us well are murmuring.

Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.

There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

as the spirit wanes the form appears

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtaposition—as making a spark requires two things struck together.

The problem at Wimbledon seems to be that the club has suffered a loss of complacency.

I don't think I would change really anything about rap. Rap don't have no limits to it, and I like it like that.

If a truth will be accepted with a million repetitions, repeat it million times!

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

Making an honest mistake is acceptable. Failing to fix it is not.