The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.
Seek the path, do not seek attainment, seek for the path within yourself. Do not expect to hear the truth from others, nor to see it, nor to read it in books. Look for the truth within yourself, not without yourself.
In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe; but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently, the biggest crimes actually escape being called crimes.
It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.
I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that there was no escape from the labyrinth of contradictions in which we live except by an entirely new road, unlike anything hitherto known or used by us. But where this new or forgotten road began I was unable to say. I already knew then as an undoubted fact that beyond the thin film of false reality there existed another reality from which, for some reason, something separated us. The 'miraculous' was a penetration into this unknown reality.
When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.
(On Bette Davis) Even when I was carrying a gun, she scared the be-jesus out of me.
I have always been able to move on musically. I've always been able to make all generations dance and love.
Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.