“All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.”
“Every sentence should be a little poem.”
“Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were 'I go to seek a Great Perhaps.' That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”
“Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.”
“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
“I’m gonna float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. His hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see.”
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
“Poetry is a deep cry against social, economic and political injustice.”
“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
“Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.”
“The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
“We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.”
“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring—it was peace.”
“What is poetry? To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”
“Our thinking should have a vigorous fragrance, like a wheat field on a summer's night.”