“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

Books. Cats. Life is good.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

In my end is my beginning.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.

Distracted from distraction by distraction

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

It’s better to show up than to give up.

Never let the things you can’t do, stop you from doing what you can.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Everything you do is up to you.

I keep telling myself that I’m a human being, an imperfect human being who’s not made to look like a doll.

What we don’t need in the midst of struggle is shame for being human.

If you don’t dream big, there’s no use of dreaming. If you don’t have faith, there’s nothing worth believing.