Since we are what we are, what shall we be But what we are? We are, we have Six feet and seventy years, to see The light , and then resign it for the grave .

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

I think continually of those who were truly great.

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

All that you can imagine you already know.

So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself

All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane.

Do your little bit of good where you are

There is so much good in the worst of us And so much bad in the best of us That it ill behooves any of us To find fault with the rest of us.

When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

Some people say you have to be a Christian to be saved. I had to stop being Christian to be saved.

When it's your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame.

Where there is no truth there is no grace.

With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.