Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

All I know is a door into the dark

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

The essence of adversity is to show us the real brave people who can withstand it.

The willingness to challenge hardships taps the power within human beings to transform even a place of tragedy into a stage for fulfilling one's mission.

There are people I will never know and their lives will still ensue

Do you believe that Deborah Wasserman Schultz, she looks just as happy as Bernie [Sanders] did. She's now hired by [Hillary] Clinton.

I'd describe myself as a Christian who doesn't believe in God.

The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.

People don't want information; they want epiphanies.