Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.

I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

Find out what you do best, and then don't do it.

It is a State of Mind... and am the president

I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.

Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.

In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.

Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.

She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard of her.

Six men can carry you or 12 men can judge you. You decide!

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.

Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.