Always someone resting there - a lone rock in the summer field

Take your materials from what is around you - if you see a dandelion, write about that; if it's misty, write about the mist. The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion.

A pear tree is blooming, by a collapsed house, on an old battlefield.

The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion.

Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.

What better way to die? It's fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!

I found his last words without too much searching. Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, 'Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.

The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent.

as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.

A true hero is not someone who thinks about doing what is right, but one that simply does what is right without thinking!

Prosthetic head is better than no head in the morning.