Chronic complainers, in other words, idiots.
Absence casts the longest shadow.
How small a single life seems in this vast universe. But it is really our conception of life which is small.
Grace rides inside the waves.
My ideal journey: set out early and never arrive.
A belief in violets isn’t necessary for violets to exist.
If a circle shuts you out, draw a circle around it.
In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated.
In spring, the snow must go; in fall, the leaves can’t stay.
First one tells a lie; then one believes it; then one becomes it.
A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked.
Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you.
When you are the problem, it’s hard to see it.
Be a poet in action as well as in words.
Indifference is a pose. Underneath, a heart is beating.
Artists must remain in a state of awe to remain artists.
When an audience shares your prejudices you can always count on their applause.
The temptation is always there: to punish oneself. To make oneself miserable.
Nothing is more self-limiting than going to extremes.
When you stop seeing your weaknesses as weaknesses you will overcome them.