In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

A woman either loves or hates: she knows no medium.

Time is the best killer.

What use is it that knowledge mounts? It's knowing something good that counts.

I am going to bring back infrastructure jobs, advanced manufacturing jobs, clean renewable energy jobs, innovation, technology, small business.

A small rock holds back a great wave.

Nothing has any power except the power that you give it.

Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s.

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.