Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

God's creation is absolute amazing.He is the great God of wonders.

Only God knows the future and that we are to look to Him—not to the stars or the tea leaves or the lines on the palms of our hands—for our confidence in the future.

Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.

I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.

I wish my brother would learn a trade, so I would know what kind of work he's out of.

One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art.

Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.

You've got to take risks if you're going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission.

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.