At Delphi I prayed to Apollo that he maintain in me the flame of the poem and I drank of the brackish spring there.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.

His soul was swimming in the maelstrom to keep her swim in the peaceful end!" ~ AB

Richard Nixon coveted, to the point of obsession, a controversy-free, stage-managed coronation.

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture.

It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.

I know this because Tyler knows this.

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

I take pride in taking the hard road and prove to people I earned it.

I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18.

Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality... in search of your individuality, in search of freedom.