You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you.

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.

Intense love always leads to mourning.

I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.

From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.

(M)uch as we might imagine we can leave the past behind, it has a nasty way of pressing its hoary old face against the window just as we were sitting down to the feast.

Stop waiting around for your life to get better and start getting better with your thoughts, decisions and actions.

The greatest step toward accomplishment is self-confidence .

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.

I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.

What's both fascinating and challenging about investing is that the changing nature of business and finance means you can never have it all figured out.