Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.

The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation.

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.

This villainous heterogenous mass of ocean highwaymen are the very ejectment of the four quarters of the globe.

I felt that putting my all into the relationship would have taken me away from my career. And I couldn't do that then.

Healthy habits are learned in the same way as unhealthy ones - through practice.