Stay humble, stay grounded, remember what got you to that level-and that’s hard work.
You can begin to shape your own destiny by the attitude that you keep.
You can start with nothing. And out of nothing, and out of no way, a way will be made.
If you are not consciously directing your life, you will lose your footing and circumstances will decide for you.
At some point you have to own up to how great you are, how beautiful you are, to how much inner dignity and potential you have. Drop complaining about what other people didn’t give you or do for you, or how they mistreated you. Take repossession of your Self and you will rise to a level of greatness that has been yours all along.
Stop looking outside for help. You're sourced and fuelled and funded by a renewable resource, which is within you. It never runs out. It is your Essence. It's your life.
Behind every problem, there is a question trying to ask itself. . . Behind every question there is an answer trying to reveal itself. Behind every answer there is an action trying to take place. And behind every action there is a way of life trying to be born.
A great song is something that you go back to in twenty years and it's still so influential to you.
I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
The creative person should have no other biography than his works.
The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a tried metrical suasion-contrivance or a specially invented pattern of physical insistences, equally, if not more, binding in its effect on the reader. From a straight linguistic point of view, there is room for wonder if there is not latent vice in this environment in which pleasurable physically-compelled responses, produced by incidents of poetic utterance, are identified with the Good.