Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.

Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for

Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning

But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that's not a reason not to write love poetry. Some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.

To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.

What you remember saves you.