No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

And what’s your unhappiness due to, Harry?The words came out before he had time to think. “Loving someone who loves me.

And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good.

Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead.

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

"I shouldn't have done that," I said. That was when I kissed him again. May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.

Is it important that you have a strong leadership for your party? I think it's critical.

Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government's been hiding.

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.