I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

We can't tell our life from our wish

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

...we are partisan in favor of our own children and grandchildren, who we hope can live in a world that doesn't poison them when they drink the water, breathe the air, or make a living.

Worst rescue ever.

God created us to rule, to lead and use all His riches to establish His order

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

For me it sounds weird saying that the filmmakers respect the film. I don't imagine that there's other ways to make a film, but unfortunately there is.

I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a vest underneath.

our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession.

Fortune favors the well-prepared.

Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station.

You know, if you play on home soil sometimes funny things can happen and you have that push of the crowd.