You cannot become Happy, You can only Be Happy.
I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.
Our government is a bird with two right wings. . . They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.
I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, "How does it feel being on mainstream media? It's not often poets get on mainstream media. " I said, "Well I think you're the dominant media, the dominant culture, but you're not the mainstream media. The mainstream media is still the high culture of intellectuals: writers, readers, editors, librarians, professors, artists, art critics, poets, novelists, and people who think. They are the mainstream culture, even though you may be the dominant culture. "
Make your mind learn its way around the heart.
With RoboCop, I couldn't be happier because it's such a quality director. José Padilha is a young master.
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breed pride and arrogance. The true believer is apt to see himself as one of the chosen, the salt of the earth, a prince disguised in meekness, who is destined to inherit this earth and the kingdom of heaven, too. He who is not of his faith is evil; he who will not listen shall perish.
The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.
Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.