I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.
Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight.
The Eyes are the window to your soul
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.
Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.
I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.
I'm not sure I have a natural gift. I think it's just that some people have an easier time expressing their emotions, maybe because of the way they've been raised, and I've always been expressive.