The true poet is one who can stir the soul with words, who can paint pictures with phrases, and who can make the heart sing with the rhythm of his verse.

文学是人类集体的记忆。

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.

I don't want to be a part of a world where being kind is a weakness.

I am here to make history.