Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.

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.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

For example at the moment there is a compulsory requirement to buy an annuity. That is something we would get rid of. It puts some people off saving.

All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness.

....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.

What we know is far less important than what we use.

Say a miracle happened and you could pull stars from the sky. Even if that happened there's no way I would give up a game for you.

I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass.

You might not agree with something, but it doesn't mean you don't need to listen to it. White people have to accept that they don't always know about racism.