I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.