More than loud acclaim, I loveBooks, silence, thought, my alcove.Pangur BánPoem by Anon Irish Monk, Translated by Seamus Heaney

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.

And I finally understood something--why had it taken me so long? Sometimes people lie because they love you.

Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.

Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.

My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace.

I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.

Time keeps on... slippin'... slippin'... slippin' into the future.

All this is, is a nine hundred dollar hammer.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire