God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.