The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.
Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.
The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again
The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.
Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark
Men lie the most, women tell the biggest lies. . . a man lie is, "I was at Kevin's house!" A woman lie is like, "It's your baby!"
It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else. We can enjoy every moment of movement, as long as where we are is as good as where we'd like to be. That's not to say that you need to be satisfied forever with where you are today. But you need to honor what you've accomplished, rather than thinking of what's left to be done (p. 159).
Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.