When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.

To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down

Beauty always takes place in the particular.

Beauty brings copies of itself into being.

Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.

The Reverence of God is grace to act right.

To be a poet is a love affair, not a desire to dare.

To demand that the intelligence abstain from judging mutilates its faculty of understanding.It is in the value judgment that understanding culminates.

You are my butterfly, and I am your flower.

The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.

I cultivate my flowers and burn my weeds.

A forty and a blunt, that's all she really wants.

This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy; they need justice.

It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves

To get hwat you want out of life, all you really need to do is be honest about it, don't be afraid to go for it, and have fun while you do it -- and you'll eventually get it.