I suppose I did feel a certain public pressure always.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

All I know is a door into the dark

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

4 minutes in and this video has already given me an erection

In person, Mr. Desmond mixes low-key friendliness and on-message discipline.

My heart is your home, wherever in the world you are – you will always have a place to stay.

Don't be discouraged. When one door closes, you can find alternative open door.

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.

The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.

But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.

I eventually shifted to video. Video opened up new conditions, or freed me from old conditions.

The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union.

If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.