The fight ended. For both was victory. For both there was defeat.

God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble.

The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.

Break any problem into, or make any changes in, small increments.

I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle.

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

People souls - perennial loners. They're loners like stray stars.

You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.

We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all.

I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me.

That out of sight is out of mind is true of most we leave behind.

Thou shalt have one God only: who Would be at the expense of two?

If you have no inner freedom, what kind of freedom do you expect?

Verily there is nothing in all Europe so beautiful as Valldemosa.

I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.

Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

You will never find true love until you first learn to love Allah

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

You're not the only piece of patchwork birds can pull worms from.

If we really do get what we give then I give up, so I can get up.

We can stick anything into the fog and make it look like a ghost.

We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

Everything, alas, is an abyss, — actions, desires, dreams, words!

Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.

stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.

we had such tremendous fun and much agony together for some years

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.

People are only 'disappointing' when one makes a wrong diagnosis.

Sometimes it may be something I hear in the news that affects me.

I was twice-born. I'm Mexican by nature and Hungarian by nurture.

I’m not investigating race as much as I’m investigating intimacy.

On the path that leads to Nowhere I have sometimes found my soul!

Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

Someone Should Write Me a Love Poem but I'm Stuck Doing It Myself

...heaven may be only the mind's fear of the wonders it imagines.

Now a doll found naked in a ditch eyes rusted open, is blasphemy.

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.

You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.

Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.

He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.

Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.

Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.

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