Inspirational Sayings

I never felt that I had been a part of anything, or that I had belonged anywhere.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.

I could not be a Poet – as I was not a Bird – And so I chose to be a Fly – And buzz around the World –

I'm a believer in the literal word. I think it's the literal word that counts.

The world is a much more spiritual place than we imagine, and a much more material one too.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, 'The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'

The world rushes on, and I am left behind, a solitary wanderer, dreaming of the past.

A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starvation, but to demonstrate his wealth and the greatness of his name.

The only way to overcome evil is with good.

I try all things, I achieve what I can.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

The cat, you know, is a perfect symbol of beauty and cruelty.

An English philosopher, named Locke, has stated that 'the human mind is a blank sheet of paper, whereon experience writes its lessons.'

I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to suffer. When I am grown, I shall be a poet.

I want to write because I have the urge to create. I want to write because I have the urge. I want to write because I.

I'm a Buddhist, and I'm a Jew, and I'm a gay man, and I'm a poet, and I'm an American, and I'm a human being. I'm all of those things.

The word is a virus that creates its own reality.