We can choose to allow our experiences to hold us back, and to not allow us to become great or achieve greatness in this life. Or we can allow our experiences to push us forward, to make us grateful for every day we have and to be all the more thankful for those who are around us.

All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.

You will always have value and nothing can change that.

What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.