It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true..

Some things that are true are not very useful..

I'm so uncoordinated..

Sometimes tender, sometimes spiral-eyed-but always, as we say, 'of a mind' -Lily Brown's sonorous and cerebral poems can fire synapses you never knew….

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants..

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire..

But the most amazing, almost miraculous news is that the majority of the building is still intact. Due to one of the most astonishingly intelligent a….

More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people..

Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and belief….

My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For every time I have h….

I'm not recognised much at all..

The day of fire is coming, the thrush will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket..

I lived for a long time under vast porticos That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires, And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous In the ….

If a manager of mine ever said someone was indispensable, I'd fire him..

I wonder if the sap is stirring yet, If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate, If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun And crocus fires are kindling….

For me, experimenting involves traditionalism..

Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated..

Whenever Percy stopped by to see [Annabeth], she was so lost in thought that the conversation went something like this: Percy: 'Hey, how's it going?'….

It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certai….

Life's the longest picture you're ever gonna take..