Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

No doubt Pain as God’s megaphone is a terrible instrument

To err is human - but it feels divine.

If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly.

Degas is a master of creating compositions that don't look composed.

I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.

I'm bleeding, I'm not just making conversation.

I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.