We are these people, wistful, ironical, wilful, who have no part in new-world reconstruction, in the confederacy of labour.

In my garden the winds have beaten the ripe lilies; in my garden, the salt has wilted the first flakes of young narcissus.

We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.

I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.

Dance until the earth dance.

She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.

One flower may slay the winter and meet death.

You are wind in a stark tree, you are the stark tree unbent, you are a strung bow, you are an arrow.

I could not accept from wisdom what love taught, woman is perfect.

Ah love is bitter and sweet, but which is more sweet the bitterness or the sweetness, none has spoken it.

No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.

The hunger for change is the desire to make a change.

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.

The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.

Real humility is something that no one else will see. No one will know about your humility, if it's real.

The foundation of a strong economy and job creation begins with providing every child in America with the best possible education, including students with disabilities.

George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.

I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same.

When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.