Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.

O starry night, This is how I want to die

O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.

You can't get out of life alive, so you may as well have a good time.

No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace.

I've actually always wanted to play the character a bit 'off'. I think that could be fun.

Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.

I got married because it was the right time and the right thing to do.

I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.

Young actors are serious about their work and don't take any time out from it. I'm very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I've done where I had a really good time.

The Water said to the dirty one, “Come here.” The dirty one said, “I am too ashamed.” The water replied, “How will your shame be washed away without me?

Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday.

I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious.