Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

Let your heart look on white sea spray and be lonely. Love is a fool star. You and a ring of stars may mention my name and then forget me. Love is a fool star.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.