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- I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau
- For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
- Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. — George Bernard Shaw
- Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through. — Wislawa Szymborska
- Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light. — Wislawa Szymborska
- Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy. — Wislawa Szymborska