Wisdom alone is true ambitions aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. – William Whitehead
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. – Henry Miller
A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think its cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, Id feel honored. – Kesha
I dont see how poetry can ever be easy… Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it. – Edward Abbey