It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact.
Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
'Mixtape' is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson's film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices. They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.
What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.
Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.
A relationship to me is never about the romance.
Religious mysticism is intellectual garbage. It’s a vestige of the old superstitious Dark Ages when nobody knew anything. . . It is one of those delusions that isn’t called insane only because there are so many people involved.