"It is not possible to express the most precious insights, To see all that craves to be seen, To visit even the closest neighbors in the universe, To learn all that needs to be learned, To live without dying, And I am sad about it. But I lived And I am happy about that."

"Life into death—life’s other shape, no rupture, only crossing."

"Since there is no real silence, silence will contain all the sounds, all the words, all the languages, all knowledge, all memory."

"Get out, but don't cause unneeded accidents."

"To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy."

"To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly and find pure ethereal substances That are not of matter But of that invisible soul pervading reality. To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul; To be a lantern in the darkness Or an umbrella in a stormy day; To feel much more than know. To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain; To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon; To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves; To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching. To be a smile on the face of a woman And shine in her memory As a moment saved without planning."

"Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer."

"When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble; when everything is silent and perfect, there is just perfection and nothing to fill the air."

"Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility."

"When all is lost, there is still a memory."

"We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery."

"If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago, he would've thought they were birds or angels from another world."

"Possible is more a matter of attitude, a matter of decision, to choose among the impossible possibilities, when one sound opportunity becomes a possible solution."

"To dream on occasion is not dreaming; to love on occasion is not love."

"There is no born lover, there is no born Don Juan, for we are all lovers."

"There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection."

"Total knowledge is annihilation of the desire to see, to touch, to feel the world sensed only through senses and immune to the knowledge without feeling."

"Great poets are great copy editors."

"Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect."

"Oblivion cures the old wounds."

"Those who hate rain hate life."

"To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps."

"I fly through memory to find a newborn love."

"Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space."

"My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world."

"There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky."

"Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good."

"Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure."

"They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night."

"Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift."

"He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door."

"Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?"

"You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself."

"Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line."

"Without pleasure there is no sight or measure."

"Fly without wings; dream with open eyes."

"Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain."

"History will be erased in the universal purgatory."

"Every thought about death takes a moment of life away."

"Dreams are our only geography—our native land."

"Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness."

"Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty."

"If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another."

"Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility."

"There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky."