Where then shall hope and fear their objects find?

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.

You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed.

Reach high for the stars that hidden in your soul. Dream precedes the goal

Go with your instinct and your gut. It sounds cliché, but never give up and just keep on. If you really believe in it, you have to just dive in and go for it.

We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.

The British are so incestuous. They pass around partners like they're passing popcorn at a movie.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.

Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'

When it comes to money, if you have it, you may feel that you don't deserve it—guilt. If you don't have it, you may feel that you should have it—guilt.