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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.
Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
The only heaven permitted to me is the part-time job heaven.
Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.
The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.
Alas! How enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases!
We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.
The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.
The second greatest pleasure after love is talking about it.
Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.
If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.
I never wanted children, maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.
We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.
God is not the voice in the whirlwind, God is the whirlwind.
I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.
Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.
I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.
I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.
Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.
Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.
There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.
Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.
From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.
It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.
Look, hasn't my body already felt like the body of a flower?
I remember being so young I thought all artists were famous.
Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons.
Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die
At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water
We humans have an amazing way of making everything personal.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old
Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?
Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.