I never reach those far-off places. New trails tempt me at every turn.

Words never change. What changes is how one interprets them.

You can’t know people, only their names.

Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality.

It’s no use organizing the mice if the cat doesn’t agree.

A person can drop dead even while singing. But that’s no reason to stop singing.

What is love after but trusting in the unknown.

It is hard to see anything as true as saying nothing.

A shooting star yields very little light.

If the sky falls, there’ll be a bigger sky behind it.

Maybe there is no justice, just different degrees of injustice.

The head follows the feet. We live first and find reasons later.

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.

To speak of happiness is to create happiness.

When I’m dying, I want dying to be my only regret.

Moderation is an attempt to live within one’s emotional means.

Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out.

Wars have always been easier to fight than explain.

The truth is what you live through while you’re looking for the truth.

Poetry is nothing if it exists only in books. One has to find it in one’s own life.

If you’re afraid to be alone, you are alone.

Art is like that. You set out to make one thing and make another.

You can spit on a rose, but it’s still a rose.

The true poetic urge is the desire for absolute freedom.

The real rain dance is when the rain dances.

When a head and a wall collide, it’s never the wall that breaks.

Technology is not the problem, nor is religion the problem. We are the problem.

The plant that’s been uprooted has only courage to hold it up.

Joy is wisdom I trust.

Most of our troubles are imaginary. We think them into existence.

We choose a path, but not what’s on it.

Morality is simply a device for leading people around by the nose.

Thinking is a way of condemning oneself to solitude.

Every crack in the sidewalk has a story to tell.

I’m for the revolutionaries but against the revolution.

Intuition: the feeling you know something when you know nothing.

The true skeptic is skeptical even about skepticism.

We forget more than we remember, we lose more than we find.

The perfect plan is to have none.

The poet’s task is to give every echo a voice.

I don’t want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it.

We don’t know why anything happens or why anything is.

Things imagined are as real as things seen.

No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.

Make your life beautiful; you’re the only one who can.

Freedom, too, can be a trap if you pursue it too doggedly.

To one who loves birds, morning always wakes up singing.

Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun is always the same.

I have no heroes except flowers and children.

The right words to express oneself can never be found in any dictionary.