On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.
Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.
Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
In time the earth will be inhabited by almost god-like beings who shall analyze and discuss the remnants of humanity as we now discuss the chimpanzee.
Feast, and your halls are crowded Fast, and the world goes by Succeed and give, and it helps you live But no man can help you die
There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go.
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful year, but I wrote 'The Beforelife' within a year.
Furless now, upright, My banished and experimental child You said, though your own heart condemn you I do not condemn you.
Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.
For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wholly satisfied? And those who remain know it.
The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.
Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.
Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.
