Somebody should tell Jerry Falwell that God is an Independent. . . he's not rich enough to be a Republican.
Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. . . . you walk with political steps on political ground.
Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know. '
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
One of the biggest sacrifices in running for President, if there is one, is the loss of anonymity.
Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.
If we are not personally engaged in God's great mission in the world, then we have missed the very thing he created us to do. We are like birds meant to fly but living in a cage; fish meant to swim but floundering on the beach. It makes sense when you think about it. If the Author of the universe created us to play a key role in his unfolding drama but we have failed to find our place in that story, then of course we would feel incomplete.
I recognize the fact that I don't have one single drop of Japanese blood in my body. But I've always felt half Japanese at heart.