If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

Time cannot children,poets,lovers tell- measure imagine,mystery,a kiss -not though mankind would rather know than feel

Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.

...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.

The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility