"I'm bound to get lucky baby, or I'm bound to die trying."
Bob Dylan

"I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's."
W. Blake

"the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the middle centerlight pop and everybody goes 'AWWW!' "
Jack K.

".. Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves,
or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths."
W. Shakespeare

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
Andy Warhol

“The unexamined life is not worth living for man.”
Socrates

“Still we live meanly, like ants”
H. D. Thoreau

"I want to say words that flame
as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try
to make both worlds fit in one mouthful..."
Rumi

"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite.
For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. "
W. Blake

"Do I dare
Disturb the universe?"
T.S. Eliot


“..There would still remain the never-resting mind,
So that one would want to escape, come back
To what had been so long composed.
The imperfect is our paradise.
Note that, in this bitterness, delight,
Since the imperfect is so hot in us,
Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.”
Wallace Stevens

“Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense.”
Norman O. Brown

"Vain hopes are often like the dreams of those who wake."
Quintilian

"Life's so different than it is in your dreams."
Tom Waits

"To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour."
W. Blake

"If only one might create the future after one's own heart --for a little pure truth, a little unflinching application of simple truth to life, the heart cried out ceaselessly."
D.H. Lawrence

"And so I dare to hope,
Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first
I came among these hills; when like a roe
I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides
Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams,
Wherever nature led -more like a man
Flying from something that he dreads than one
Who sought the thing he loved."
William Wordsworth

"Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth
A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud
Enveloping the Earth -
And from the soul itself must there be sent
A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth,
Of all sweet sounds the life and element!"
Sam Coleridge

"You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?"
Gibran Khalil Gibran

“You have to tackle all this while knowing that these are, really, questions about who you are, and who you will become.”
Hanif Kureishi

"Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion."
Dylan Thomas

"..I believed in my heart in monsters."
Guillermo Del Toro

"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
Virginia Woolf

"... I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."
Zora Neale Hurston

"In the world in which I travel, I'm endlessly creating myself."
Frantz Fanon

"What we play is life."
Louis Armstrong