My name's Punk. CM Punk.
Sometimes from this hillside just after sunset The rim of the sky takes on a tinge Of the palest green, like the flesh of a cucumber When you peel it carefully.
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.
Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.
Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.
The birds are silent in the woods. Just wait: soon enough You will be quiet too
Losing money is a big loss, losing friends is greater than the loss, also lost all faith is lost
That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.
What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet to his lips, even if only to practice three notes, he does it with his whole soul.
I don't think this is rocket science. I think we have some common interests, like dismantling our nuclear weapons, dealing with terrorism and, in my view, you know, [Barack] Obama is now cooperating with [Vladimir] Putin to drop bombs.