The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

T.S. Eliot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot

Poetry can tell us what human beings are. It can tell us why we stumble and fall and how, miraculously, we can stand up.

Maya Angelou

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment – the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges

Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.

Allen Ginsberg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg

Inside my empty bottle, I was constructing a lighthouse, while all the others were making ships.

Charles Simic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Simic

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

Paul Theroux

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Theroux

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

Barbara Kingsolver

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kingsolver

Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist

He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits:

This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid,

So, in the end, he could not change the tragic habits

This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.

Robert Graves

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves

Fame is a bee.

It has a song –

It has a sting –

Ah, too, it has a wing.

Emily Dickinson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson

The poet is a faker

Who’s so good at his act

He even fakes the pain

Of pain he feels in fact.

Fernando Pessoa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa