May Quotes

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

Never do today what you can do tomorrow, because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

My heart may be black but it was still capable of heart failure.

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn’t pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.

To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….