I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.S. Eliot

I accept reality and dare not question it.
Walt Whitman

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
e. e. cummings

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
e. e. cummings

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Russell Baker

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
Edvard Munch