The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.
I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance
Sexual intercourse began in 1963. . . Between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles first LP
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.
Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.
But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have so simply declared myself, have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy, have taken on his craft, his magic.
Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, 'Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it's impossible because it's sold out. ' It's really amazing.