Archives - April 2013

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game: it's called an eraser.

The face is more honest than the mouth will ever be.

No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Our tax code is so long it makes WAR AND PEACE seem breezy.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

I am a believer in punctuality though is makes me very lonely.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for...

You got to sing like you don't need the money; Love like you'll never get hurt; You got to dance like nobody's watchin'; It's gotta come from the heart if you want it to work.

We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

Love didn't grow very well in place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.