I look and look, / As though I could be saved simply by looking

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.

It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.

If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit, Felt in the tingling bruises of collision, And known to captains as esprit de corps.

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Sometimes in life we must slowly distant ourselves from people and places we feel unconformable. Don't feel bad feel freedom.

Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.

I am going to be considerate and compassionate to everyone, but my greatest compassion will be for our own struggling citizens.

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

With a little more tweaking, we could make orange juice in the orange without any packaging or processing.

You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.

Not worrying about the cost of materials and tools extends my artistic freedom.

Money is just a symbol we use to facilitate te gathering of memories and experiences.

Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.