The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.

I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

Curiouser and curiouser, " he says. I smile at the reference. Carroll was totally a witch. The secrets of our world are written into that book.

Let your faith be bigger than your fear.♡ ✌︎ ☼ ❀

Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification is genocide.

Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

It's not just philosophy, not just words; it's knowing how the mind functions; only then can you develop loving-kindness; only then can you become a spiritual person.