“Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.”

The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.

One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.

It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

We can never be born enough.

You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

Twice I have lived forever in a smile.

Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion.

A poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being.

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.

I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius.

This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

I will heal and Oh what a day that will be.

The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.

I’m going to give away a lot more than half my money. I’d be happy to give that to the government if the government put together programs that were like I’m giving away to charity, in which I believe the money is effectively used to help people.

Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after you’ve done that, dream bigger.