#hope

"Remorse among Thieves When a caught thief shows remorse he says to himself,"I knew I should pull off that heist differently."

"I hope suffering don't exist."

"Love Poetry [10w] Love poetry is simply bleeding on the page with ink."

"Political Strategists Avoids the Controversial [10w] Politicians win by pandering to the base of shared assumptions."

"Arches National Park, Utah BloodshotZiggurats of rock against unbending sky,sandstone fins and eyes of ancient earth behemoth.Your windows wedged by cosmic hands of rain and melting snow, of frost and ice, of gravity and geologic time, patient and untiring,self-possessed like a child's perception of endless summer."

"Rainbows and Gratuitous Violence Whenever I see a rainbow, I want to punch a penguin in the face."

"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment."

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

"Each life experience poses this question: how do you want to be changed because of me?"

"To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect"

"Credo of a Substitute Teacher I'm a 'sugar free' substitute teacher.I speak frankly and never gave any of my studentsa single word of encouragement.Why should I? Even after 10 years the school hasn't given me a pension, health insurance or paid sick leave.So fuck 'em.Fuck 'em all."

"Rien ne va arrêter ma quête pour te trouver"No one will stop my quest to find you."

"Pushkin When Pushkin came to Shovekin all hell broke loose."

"I hope I make people feel better. I hope I take people out of their situations a little bit and make them happier. That's really why I do what I do."

"I think at the heart of so much restlessness of the day is a spiritual vacuum. There is a yearning for meaningful lives, a yearning for values we can commonly embrace. I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses."

"I want him to love me as much as I love him."

"I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain. --Valentine, while in Italy (pg 267)"

"Wheaties: Breakfast of Champions... who'll endorse any product for a price."

"Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs."

"Trance & Instinct The best poems come from trance and instinct;transcribing the unedited voice of universal consciousness."