This is my destiny — I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can and can't do!
The end of art is peace.
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.
I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.