“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.

Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.

For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.

What’s really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.

I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.

Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.

The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.