No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

The most pleasing of all sounds, that of your own praise.

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.