Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.