Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.

Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.

In summer the empire of insects spreads.

A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.

But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.

Cities at daybreak are no one's, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed.

I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.

This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.

I drink from a small spring, my thirst exceeds the ocean.

A thousand laughing suns are in your eyes. A thousand crying stars in mine.

Every single moment is a travel into the unknown!

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.

O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed.

No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.

People should be talking about "yoga asanas" as a competive sport. Because there are many forms of yoga. The most common two forms are hatha yoga and raja yoga. That's mostly what people understand.

look for a lovely thing and you will find it, it is not far, it never will be far

It becomes an emperor to die standing.

I was an equal opportunity eater. Every ethnic group got a shot.