Whatever happens, I shall never be alone, I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

I think continually of those who were truly great.

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

All that you can imagine you already know.

So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself

All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane.

There is no better taste than this: someone else's laughter in your mouth.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.

I always keep my head down, working, doing things, moving forward. That's what I've done all my life. Then you stop and realize what you've done.

even if vampires were stupid. Especially American vampires. They hung out in places Alaric himself would never have gone, especially if he were immortal. Such as high schools. And Walmart.

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

Whenever you get a sharp pain, you need to back it off.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.