It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.
I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.
Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.
No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between heaven and earth, frail at the extremities, yet strong at the central trunk, and nothing is closer to us at the beginning and at the end, providing the timber boards that frame both the cradle and the coffin.
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
Music is my time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.
The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine. . . that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.
The Republicans don't need black folks to vote Republican, they just need them to not vote.