An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.

The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.

I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.

Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.

We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.

Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.

She looked utterly betrayed, as betrayed as the most betrayed person in Shakespeare.

Someone has done something for us. Something that we can never forget. Something that we can't do again even for our own selves.

We don’t just believe that God is real, but in tough circumstances we believe that he knows the way out

Hold the bottle up to the light

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future.

If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything.

Decriminalizing bodies - this is a big and growing movement.