Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I am representing California, and all of California, definitely as a Mexicano, a Chicano, a Latino.
Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.
In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.
In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.
Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.
I write to find out what I am thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things.
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.
It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.
For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
I'm a suspicious mulatto, which means I'm too black to be white and too white to be doing it right.
To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.
All experiment is made on a basis of tradition; all tradition is the crystallization of experiment.
I am more proud of what distinguishes man from the animals than of what he has in common with them.
Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.
Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again.
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it the everything change.
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.
When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.
Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.
All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
People need a parental divine love which will attend to them above all else, no matter what happens
One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.
What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering?
My generation of black British people often feels part American because of what we learned from TV.
In politics, arts / no issue's dramatic / nor will 'play' till its heart's / simplified to fanatic.
Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.
When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.
Some debts are fun while you are acquiring them, But none are fun when you set about retiring them.
Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.
Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]
The first thing you must do is forget that I'm Black. Second, you must never forget that I'm Black.