I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

Life loves the liver of it.

I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‚X100PRE‘ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Hundreds of people who’ve never written before send in ‚Dr. Who‘ scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

I’m interested in Jackson Pollock’s kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it’s nothing, and yet it’s incredible.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Every band I’ve worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they’ve gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don’t think anyone in my family would really feel I’d done them an injustice by saying that. We didn’t see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of ‚Hitchhiker’s,‘ and I thought, ‚No, no.‘ I didn’t want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another thing from a book I’d already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

When we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

There is spontaneity to my work.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

It’s not easy to define poetry.

I’m nobody, who are you?

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still, to this day, I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

Time discovers truth.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don’t mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It’s the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.