The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage. The wet centre is bottomless.

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.

Living is painful. Without pain, reality would escape us and the lessons the world has for us will go untaught.

To live a normal life, you just have to believe nothing is normal.

So here is one tip, be careful how you say the words... sometimes people get it wrong once wrong it goes like rummor.

Failure is relative. Life is adventure. Everything has beauty.

One of the reasons for putting yourself on the line, is that life is not simply treading water... I always felt that once you reach a certain point, you have to try and move ahead.

Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together.

I want to get away, I want to fly away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I had this vivid image of myself at the age of 60 looking back on my life and truly regretting the fact that I hadn't tried to be an actor

The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.

Some kinds of stocks are easier to analyse than others.