Archives - April 2012

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

It's easier to quote poets than to read them.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.

Who knows what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

There are two things a person should never be angry at: what they can help, and what they cannot.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.