The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.

Intense love always leads to mourning.

I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.

From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.

I’m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that light causes sadness—

In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.

You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made. Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

Steve Kerr, now coaching Golden State after eight tumultuous and very inconsistent years at TNT.

Be yourself, be in the moment, you’re going to be modern.

We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be!