O sky above me, you modest, glowing sky! O you, my happiness before sunrise! Day is coming: so let us part!

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

A bird that does not break out of its shell will die in its egg.

Apologize!That's the least you can do to try to make right something you have wronged.

Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.

A guy calls me a genius, and I'm going to renounce? I'm not going to renounce him.

We are all the siblings of Kuwait. She is the mother and the father, and we are the shield that protects her from her enemies

The future is plump with promise.

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another book.