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"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."

"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."

"Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."

"I've written some poetry I don't understand myself."

"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."

"Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."

"Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes."

"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge."

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."

"What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books."

"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."

"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."

"With the Kennedys, the genes are in magnificent alignment, but the stars are demonstrably crossed."

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

"If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches."

"Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other."

"There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.""

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."

"You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip."

"Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch."

"One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space."

"It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators."

"My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon."

"Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life."