The excellence of every art is its intensity capable of making all disagreeables evaporate from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

Light and Darkness. One cannot exist without the other. There is no true Master, without the power of balance. ☥

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge.

When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.

The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.

Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one's own.

This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.

I definitely keep myself secret.

This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.

We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.