Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.

I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.

Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old.

I have found life so beautiful.