Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.

Holidays - Have no pity.

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

It is a pity that every one of us desires greatness yet not many of us know what to do with our time.

I didn't know someone could cry that much, I thought the tears would run out. They don't.

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.

A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.

In karate, hitting, thrusting, and kicking are not the only methods, throwing techniques and pressure against joints are included … all these techniques should be studied referring to basic kata

Stay hungry to become the best that you can be. Never be satisfied with the level of artistry you've attained. You can always be better.

I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.

Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst.

No matter what you say to yourself, you do want to win. You try to look casual, like you're not thinking, 'oh, please pick me.'