Poetry contains nothing haphazard.

This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it.

Liberal hopefulness Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.

The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.

The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.

Seeing the Pure Soul (Shuddhatma) in everyone is itself an intent of friendship towards the entire world.

Grief—in all of its agony—burrowed deep into her essence, its serrated edges killing her piece by piece.

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.

Our real reality is beyond the five senses.

Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

If we worried half as much what others are doing for us and spent twice as much time helping others, we would all be exponentially happier.

Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.

A lot of people go, "I'm influenced by the Beatles and Zeppelin," and they just sound like a karaoke.