“The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.”

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams.

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing – you.

There is no God any more divine than Yourself.

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

Resist much, obey little.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

We convince by our presence.

All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

You don’t need to pour your love on somebody else who does not even absorb it.

Humanity is an organism, inherently rejecting all that is deleterious, that is, wrong, and absorbing after trial what is beneficial, that is, right

Writing saved my life when it all became too much. I poured my pain out into poetry I let the paper absorb everything i’d been holding on for years.

She can relate to darkness it absorbs everything.

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.

I don’t have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.