We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.

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.

Your income can grow only to the extent that you do.

Where love rules there is no will to power and where power predominates love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.

Accidents have already become an important factor restricting the development of a harmonious economy and society, and have attracted the strong attention of the Chinese government and society

If I Separated Myself From You . . . I Would Turn Entirely Thorn!

My dad's death reminds me of earthquakes - things that shake your foundation.

The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.