In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.

The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?

To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.

In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.

Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

Although tomorrow might be your sadness, you have to prepare yourself, accept the truth, and let it be. Because what you think today and tomorrow may be different.

I am pretty tough as a boss.

I have learnt to be even more patient.

Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.

I can't imagine Weezer stopping. We just love doing what we're doing, and I think we'll keep going until we fall down dead. Even if the audience is abandoning us, I can't imagine doing anything else!

The mission of NASA's Kepler telescope is to lift the scales from our eyes and reveal to us just how typical our home world is. Kepler operates by measuring the dimming of stars as planets pass ('transit') in front of them. It has found thousands of previously unknown worlds.

Maybe it's not always about trying to fix something broken. Maybe it's about starting over and creating something better.

My daughter loves to cook. At first, I found myself making her be really neat and precise. Then I realized it's OK if things get all over the floor and counters and ceiling. We're making memories.

To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.

Failing isnt bad when you learn what not to do.

More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio.

Materialism is a circumference without a centre. Idealism is a centre without a circumference.

I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!

Flame mails and offensive Internet activities are not classy. It doesn't fit with our culture here, where we respect the gender, race, opinions, ear-lobe apparel and choice of clothing of all employees.

I'm a huge dog nut - giant, giant.

All over Africa, people are wearing what Americans once wore and no longer want. Visit the continent, and you'll find faded remnants of secondhand clothing in the strangest of places.

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

Every once in a while, we'd ask my dad if we could get a ride in one of these planes. And, he did take us to the flying club and get us a ride in the Pushpak and a glider that the flying club had.

I am a very selfish person.

I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts.

I got my first book deal when I was in college, but it was published in Germany, and I could never actually read it.

I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.

How can you not respect somebody like me? If you don't respect me, it's because you got hatin' all over you. If you don't like me, you don't like yourself.

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth".