Quotes About Reflection

I'm looking for youinto that silverspoon where I taste my reflection to feel the touch of your untouchables- from the poem "Looking For You

Poetry is the essence and evidence of life.

The reader who is illuminated is in a real sense the poem.

Speak without words. Know the weight of words

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Laying in a hammock, darkness surrounds me.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

My life needs editing.

Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.

Rest of my life is more important to me than politics

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems.

If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.

This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

It's easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself.

The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.