"I began with only one assumption; that man lives in constant tension between contradictory forces within himself, above all what I would call ‘the everyday and the Sabbath’— his awareness as he is, and his longing for what he wants to become." — Fanny Howe, American poet, born 1940
"Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die." — Marie Howe, American poet, born 1950
"Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages." — Edwin Hubble, American cosmologist, born 1889
"My parents were mourning the death of my sister. She was killed in a car accident before I was born, and I didn't know she existed until I was 13 or 14 years old. I knew I was growing up in a house where people were angry and sad." — Andrew Hudgins, American poet, born 1951
"Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist." — Howard Hughes, American Tycoon, born 1905
"Passion will make you crazy, but is there any other way to live?" — Howard Hughes, American tycoon, born 1905
"We don't have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel." — Howard Hughes, American tycoon, born 1905
"I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddamit, I'm a billionaire." — Howard Hughes, American tycoon, born 1905
"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby." — Langston Hughes, American poet, born 1902
"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go." — Langston Hughes, American poet, born 1902
"I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug in return." — Langston Hughes, American poet, born 1902
"The dreamer in her had fallen in love with me and she did not know it. That moment the dreamer in me fell in love with her and I knew it." — Ted Hughes, English poet, born 1930