I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee
I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)
To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth,"You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.