Saying Quotes

For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.

One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying… If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?

His hands are saying that he wants to hold her. His feet are saying that he wants to chase after her… He’s probably forgotten that I’m here, beside him

Not deep the poet sees, but wide.

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.

People like myself were saying the Taliban would be driven out very swiftly from the north of Afghanistan, but given that their main support base was in the Pashtun belt, there would be greater resistance there. That didn’t happen.

I’m actually kind of angriest about the fact that everybody keeps saying how angry I am.

I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.

Everyone keeps saying, “Oh my God, oh my God, how intimidating.” It’s like saying, “How could you date Jennifer Aniston after she’s been with Brad Pitt?” I don’t care.