Louis Dudek

There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.

Robert Creeley

First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.

T.S, Eliot

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords

Nikki Giovanni

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

Dante Alighieri

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest."

Dalai Lama

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it

AS Kline

A.S. Kline
Everything we are, all our consciousness, stands in the way of our living, of our life.

Bruyere

Children have neither past nor future;
and that which seldom happens to us,
they rejoice in the present.
- Jean de La Bruyere

Robert Bly

It is surely a great calamity for a human being
to have no obsessions.

Wendell Berry

All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own
drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

Paul Celan

Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won

Joseph Brodsky

Every individual ought to know at least one poet
from cover to cover: if not as a guide through
the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

Amiri Baraka

A man is either free or he is not. there cannot be any
apprenticeship for freedom.

Jesus

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.