Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

Dreams have as much influences as actions.

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.

a person can also find solitude with others, though it is more difficult

The only excuse from a man who abuses you are the ones we give him.

He that is purified by love is pure

He pokes a finger inside me as he plays with my wetness.” —Sofia Herrera (French Kiss, Unbearable Passion, #2)

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.

THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.

I am passionate about my family, adventure, good wine, nature and the outdoors, sharks, the ocean, and working hard to preserve it all for future generations.