Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by the crowd.
If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
The ways we miss our lives are life.
Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.
most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.
I would like to tell all dancers to forget themselves and the desire for self display. They must become completely absorbed in the dance. Even in a classical variation there should never be any thought of a dancer doing a variation--he should become identified with it.
You're forced to think about what your goals are and you clarify them because you're taking this journey with another person and you need to be open with your partner.
When hope is hungry, everything feeds it
I came to my mom and told her I wanted to do this[acting].