A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

I'd love to give you somethingbut what would help?

To make your goals savvy, keep them both personal (meaningful to you and aligned with your values) and positive (so you feel good about what you’re trying to accomplish.

Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

Stay calm inside! You will then see that outside storms of life, even the most terrible ones, will turn into soft winds.

I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.