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

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.

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.

There is a certain justice in criticism.

There are many languages in the world but the most widely spoken and understood by everyone are power, love and money.

The End" is just the beginning.

In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.

Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move.

I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.

Sophistication and lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures.

The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion.

Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?

The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves.

There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God.