History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

I think continually of those who were truly great.

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

All that you can imagine you already know.

So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself

All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane.

There is a certain justice in criticism.

The mind speaks, though it does not have lips.The heart moves, though it does not have feet.The soul rises, though it does not have wings.

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Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.

Step by step Moment by moment We live through Another day

Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.

Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.

Oblivion is not to be hired.

You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.

As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.

Every time I have had a problem, I have confronted it with the ax of art.