One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

We can't tell our life from our wish

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

Live your life to fullness of your sacred existence.

Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.

Regrets of the past can be turned into seeds to grow a more positive future or unlearned, doomed to repeat the same.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different.

The Lord will never forsake or abandon anyone, You may abandon him, but he will not abandon you. You never need to feel that you are alone.

It's not appropriate to joke about the Ku Klux Klan.

The fact that I haven't been married might qualify me as belonging in the nutty category to a lot of women.

We are developing all sorts of technologies based on what we have learnt from birds, animals and soils. Pollination is worth £billions. But it also highlights how nature is so interconnected.

For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.