i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Making something is HardMaking something you don't even CARE ABOUT isEVEN HARDER .

Homework doesn’t end when you receive a diploma. Often, it's just the beginning of your learning.

The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years.

There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age.

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!

I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence.

I don't care if someone remembered me. Life is for living and memories for those who we leave behind.

I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.

A quarrelsome man deserves no honors.

I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.