A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.
Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding. . . that's where things get sticky.
You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.
There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.
And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.
I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.
for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.
Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet.
If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.
It is far from simple to show the truth, yet the truth is simple.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.