The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

THoughts have unique beauties, you will never be able to express it in words.

You can have all the words in the world, but if not said rightly, those words are simply wasted potential.

...but there's always he'll want to torture your boss anyway. Just recreationally, I mean.""Wow that would be terrific, " I said

Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.

Next to her, I felt like Carrot Top in drag. Cat re: Annette

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.