The time for your labor has been granted.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.

Trust yourself, you will start to trust others.

You must be clever, Tracey to do these forgeries.""She's not clever. I did them, " yelled Frieda."You'll get five years.""She did them."From Halfpennies and Blue Vinyl

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

I believe that our deepest pain is often the path to our highest purpose.

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. It's just because I don't have much time.

Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is there anything in the world lovelier than fresh warm bread and a mug of sweet golden tea?

More than once my mother would point out: "Harry Belafonte is the best-looking man on the planet."

In a time of crisis, the peoples of the world must rush to get to know each other.

Did you just call me BEATRICE?