We must listen to poets.

When the image is new, the world is new.

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?

Wolves in shells are crueler than stray ones.

He had the same look on his face that I had every day when I looked in the mirror. He was nothing more than a shell of a person.

One day I realized, I am what I'm looking for. The love I've been searching the world for. When I devoutly love myself it's fulfilling, and it attracts others. They fight to love me twice as much.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

If you're the only hot dog stand in town, you're hot dogs don't have to be good.

Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived... The pain now is part of the happiness then.

The truth of the matter is, we're not far away from where we should be. We can complain about the problem or we can go out and solve the problem. I choose to go out and try to solve the problem.

In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody

Sometimes you have to say, 'Today's just not my day.

Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.