In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it.

They call it music, but it's just this side of magic.

If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.

Tears on yo'ur mother's eyes are havier than Ocean waters.

Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.

Live and learn from your mistakes, just get back up and keep fighting.

Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

As a man is, so is his God; therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]

I'm not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can't afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.