"The true poet is called to take..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“True happiness springs from moderation.[Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]”

“He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.”

“Art will always be art.”

“I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.”

“On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?”

“For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.”

“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.”

“Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.”

“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.”