I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

I think continually of those who were truly great.

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

All that you can imagine you already know.

So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself

All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane.

You are not the first, and will not be the last, to say so. I wear my “warped” label with pride.

Those who find courage to pursue their dreams, manifest gladness of their souls.

Do you know how fast you are walking? ... To get a close estimate, count the number of steps you take in a minute and divide by 30... :)

As we're bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.

I cannot contain this. Please, can we all have something sexual together? You're both beautiful, even just a hug.'

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Every five-year-old kid should have a pair of happy pajamas. (217)

Life is short. You can't afford to put off what God has put in your heart. You don't have time to live with things holding you back.

Change doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction.

As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.