Rita Dove

I loved to read, but I always thought that
the dream was too far away. The person who
had written the book was a god, it wasn't
a person.

John Keats

Do you not see how necessary a world
of pains and troubles is to school
an intelligence and make it a soul?

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.

Elizabeth Bishop

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to
let us do so many a dangerous thing.

Edward R. Murrow

A satellite has no conscience.

Otis Rush

A guy will promise you the world and give
you nothin', and that's the blues.

J Allard

The chips are in production, the machines
aren't. So we've got a little bit of work
left to do.

Bertrand Russell

A hallucination is a fact, not an error;
what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

Mose Allison

There's a lot of terrible things goin' on
all the time, but you gotta try and have
some fun in the end.

Roy Acuff

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

Neil Young

As you go through life, you've got to see
the valleys as well as the peaks.

Bryan Adams

I got in trouble with the police, and
that was a rude awakening. That was it.
I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it
was time to scrape myself out of it.

Bob Dylan

A hero is someone who understands the
responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Andre Breton

If I place love above everything, it is because
for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing
state of affairs imaginable.

Frank O'Hara

Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.

Buddy Hackett

I've had a few arguments with people, but
I never carry a grudge. You know why? While
you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize
that they'd been kept in the dark by the United
States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

e.e. cummings

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up
you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

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.

Emily Dickinson

After great pain, a formal feeling comes.
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

Edwin Arnold

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for,
because each man makes his own prison

Marquis de Lafayette

When the government violates the people's rights,
insurrection is, for the people and for each portion
of the people, the most sacred of the rights and
the most indispensible of duties.

Jorge Luis Borges

Nevertheless, it means much to have loved,
To have been happy, to have laid my hand on
The living Garden, even for one day.

Hart Crane

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so
overwhelms the present with its worth and vision
that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that
there exist any real links between that past
and a future worthy of it.