Good Quotes

Good Quotes
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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that’s not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity

For me, poetry is a situation – a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history

We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are

Yesterday is but today’s memory, tomorrow is today’s dream

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need

Every man loves two women; The one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born.