Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.
Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
'Mixtape' is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson's film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices. They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.
What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.
There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.
My career never suffered from my not being skinny. I never did catwalk work because I was always too big. I couldn't get the clothes over my hips.
Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world.