Success is having consistent work habits.
Dreaming illustrates your hidden capacities and your unawakened ability.
Life is not a dress rehearsal – every day is opening night.
Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.
You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but change it permanently.
As you move through life, set aside good ideas and give them to others to encourage and inspire.
Having a long term goal provides a catalyst for motivation at every waking moment.
If a despot like Adolf Hitler can think of 1000-year reign, why can’t you think of a goal that is gonna last 100 years after you have gone?
What makes the great great? It is a sense of destiny.
Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can’t be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.