Never ASSUME, because when you ASSUME, you make an ASS of U and ME.
We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.
This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth.
Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone. . . . they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart
There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.
- I notice you didn't laugh, Mr. Black! - No, Your Majesty. We are forbidden to laugh at the things kings say, sire, because otherwise we would be at it all day.
The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.
The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.