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.