All I wanted was to be a pea of being inside the green pod of time.

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.

The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

Write the poem only you can write.

But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.

But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

A person's practical experience can attribute him or her to teach his or her fellow learners the value of real life responsibilities and its consequences.

We are made up of everything we have ever been, Percy. It is the joy and the pain of our individuality. There are no two of us the same.

We all have our state of mind- happy or sad, sources of both are so relatable.Despite showing someone’s faults & flaws we need to cherish them. cause, we all are into an e n d l e s s l o o p.

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

I just . . . knew, the way you know how to breathe or to pull your hand back from a hot stove.

The neuroses parody the virtues.

The American people have every right to be outraged with the administration's approval of the UAE port deal. It is time the people's House make the security of our Nation's ports a priority.

Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped.

I love thee - I love thee, 'Tis all that I can say, It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the day.