Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

All I know is a door into the dark

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.

People who are afraid of death are afraid of lif

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean. "I'll look it up." No. With Me. At my house. Now

Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action.

When you lose your sense of humor, get a job running an elevator, because your life will be a series of Ups and Downs anyway.

I hate jeans for no reason.

Music is the celestial sound, and it is sound that controls the whole universe, not atomic vibrations. Sound energy, sound power, is much, much greater than any other power in the world.

You should vote for Neoprene Byzantine in the Hot Hundred, they're really sweet guys and that Moscow song is just wow! Hurry guys voting closes really soon mwah!

Treat everyone like it's still your first job and that we're all just happy to be here.