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.

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.

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

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 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.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

It’s one of those times when the question is its own answer…. The writing is itself the solution to the inability to write!

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.

I'm not loved by Hillary Clinton... and I don't love her either.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Our job is, first and foremost, to make sure our family is whole.

I try to see each new season as a new challenge because I have a new team to work with, new opponents to encounter, and often new ideas and theories to try

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

I don't always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible.