Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

Dreams have as much influences as actions.

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

We have some fast guys out there. It's always fun to compete with each other at practice in the outfield. It's going to be a fun year out there.

Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician.

That danger which is despised arrives the soonest.

Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.

I like poems that affect me emotionally and also provoke me to further, deeper thought. I enjoy challenge, but not, I think, for its own sake.

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

True beauty is knowing who you are and what you want and never apologizing for it.

I wanna know how many buttons I'm going to get at meet and greets now.

It is remarkable how very individual technique becomes in watercolour. Every man of personality finally arrives at a method peculiarly his own, as unique as his own fingerprint.