I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.

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.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

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.

Gnan [True Knowledge] means the Guru's experiential talks.

Sydney, look at me.' He rested his hands on the car roof and leaned in. 'No one is going to hurt you. Do you know why?' She shook her head, and Victor smiled. 'Because I'll hurt them first.

She'd lived in the same house with this man and never once thought about his thighs in the last year.

Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.

Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against the wind.

As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.