We turn from the light to see.

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage

The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.

There's no fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.

We could easily have evolved eyelids thick enough to keep out the light, but we still need to see the shadows fall across them. We're not yet safe.

After a long period of reflection, he decided that he was in fact right yet again.

Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition has only reconfirmed a prejudice.

Facing different options, you must always choose the one that makes you most uncomfortable, the one that creates a tingling feeling of excitement inside your body.

Life's Journeys Inward seeking moves towards being-time Outward seeking journies among life's ornaments

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

My goal is to be the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World.

Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.

After white's reply to 1.e4 e5 with 2.f4 the game is in its last throes

I focus on a lot of women's issues.

I want to be the victim of his errors.

Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.