Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

The soul exceeds its circumstances.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

It is difficult to learn what you do not enjoy. So love every bit of knowledge and enjoy every moment.

Never lose hope, though everything's bleak, though you feel so weak. Never shrink back, never look back, especially when you know that you're fighting for the right reasons, for the right people.

I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight!

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you.

If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody. I was born that way.

I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!

I give grace because I so desperately need it.

It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.

Walls are made of fear; bridges are made of love!