The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
From Leonard Cohen
When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.
I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
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