Wielding your words cavalierly can inadvertently lop off someone’s ego.

Freedom can be an acquired taste for those who have never savored it.

Unless you break free from the shackles of beauty as dictated by the media and society, true beauty will be elusive.

Is a tree any less beautiful because it has lost a limb?

History and beauty lie in the baroque wrinkles of old cathedrals. mosques, synagogues, temples and faces whose stories are told without a single word.

The candy colored coral snake.The iridescent blue-ringed octopus.Décolletage.Beware of conspicuous beauty.Its venom can be deadly.

She walks in beauty.I am trampled by it.She swims in beauty.I drown in it.

Roll in the snow.Shower in the rain.Bask in the sun.Weatherproof your soul.

Hard and dry, a chickpea is inedible.Hard and dry, a heart is unlovable.Presoak it in dance, music and art.

Beholdthe azure sea in front of you, the turquoise sky above you, the amber mountain beneath your feet, and the golden daisy in your hands.How are you not the richest person on earth?

Start a rumor aboutpeace taking over, love being the new black, and compassion going viral.

The scribbled signature black, onto the blinding global white, onto the thick soupy red.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin.

Writing is a wonderful way to spend the day. Particularly when the alternative is housework!

The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.

the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

We now buy watches primarily for their looks, price, or additional functions. The fact that they tell time seems lost.

I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16.

Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them.

Regardless of whether you believe in the Singularity, you will most likely experience the benefits of it. But we don't really know.