That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

It is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.

Go so deep into yourself, you speak for everyone.

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment

The first step in the journey is to lose your way.

Turn on the dream you lived through the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the floating days may you discover grace.

I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.

Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness

Let our scars fall in love.

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason?For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't any.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Don't worry about people from your past there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.

Great art can only be created out of love.

Maybe da Vinci didn’t serve lamb in his painting of the Last Supper, but there was room for interpretation. Jesus himself was the lamb led to the slaughter.

There are things money can't buy and hard work can't win. One of them is happiness.

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.