A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

Jack Kerouac

Today is not just another ordinary day. It is an opportunity to do, or say, something that just might inspire someone to greater becoming...especially a wayward youth.

T.F. Hodge

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

Charles Franklin Kettering

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

Cato The Elder

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness.

Kahlil Gibran

Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.

Arthur Balfour, The Foundations

Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Jean Paul

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Albert Camus

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

Charles Baudelaire

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

John Wesley

If you have to remind yourself to concentrate during competition, you've got no chance to concentrate.

Bobby Nichols