A new music is a new mind.

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.

There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.

My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.

Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.

But I know he loves me. I know he needs our games, that they answer some deep-seated hunger in him.

Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert, Gathers and melts.

The idea that we are going to be able to take our entire society as it currently works and simply change the source of energy and make it sustainable is not actually congruent with reality.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

You cannot bring anything new into your life until you are grateful for what you have now.

Love is the lotus, lust is the mud the lotus arises out of.

Complaining will not change things in your life; only action will. Make a list of all you need to do to change what doesn't work in your life and, little by little, begin making those changes.