“He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love”
“We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it’s a terrible shock.”
“Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act”
“Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered”
“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world”
“Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song”
“Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic ’til I’m gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love”
“Don’t dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be”
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash”
“I couldn’t feel so I learned to touch.”
“This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can’t live without love. That life has very little meaning without love”
“When you’re younger, you do have that thing that you were talking about where the mouth goes dry. I mean you have reactions, and you do fall in love.”
“Nothing can stop you from thinking. The human mind is designed to think continually”
“Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty”
“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world”
“I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.”
“Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.”
“I said I was ready to die recently, and I think I was exaggerating.That declaration of readiness, no matter what the outcome, that’s a part of everyone’s soul”
“As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder”
“I am not the one who loves – It’s love that chooses me. When hatred with his package comes, you forbid delivery…”
“Love is the only engine of survival”
“As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty”
“You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind”
“I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin”
“When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you”
“A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh”
“We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear”
“A poem has a certain – a different time. For instance, a poem is a very private experience, and it doesn’t have a driving tempo. In other words, you know, you can go back and forward; you can comeback; you can linger. You know, it’s a completely different time reference.”
“To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older”
“When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself”
“I don’t know which side is anybody on any more. I don’t really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we’re on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order”
“We’re in a world where there’s famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it’s very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?”
“I don’t trust my inner feelings, inner feelings come and go”
“Everytime you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory”
“In the broken places, the light shines through.”
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
“We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky”
“What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger for profit”
“We are ugly but we have the music”
“I smile when I’m angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I’d die for the truth in my secret life”
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