"I took one look and fell, hook..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much.”

“For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.”

“In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.”

“I love Obama, and I just want to reiterate it again to everyone from every hilltop and every mountain: I love him!”

“Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.”

“The world is truly round and seems to start and end with those we love.”

“Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along with a story, like I do in life, just talking to myself and making fun of stuff and laughing at stuff that's serious. And sometimes it's a good idea to put the laughing into the songs. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's all right just to be serious. But most of the songs have some kind of joke in them.”

“His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.”

“Comparatively, we can excuse any offense against the heart, but not against the imagination. The imagination knows--nothing escapes its glance from out its eyry--and it controls the breast.”