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

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.

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.

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

Artists are the serfs of a leisure society.

I spent too long worrying about what other people think.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Many of the crisis problems which are considered disasters in the United States would only be normal, everyday living conditions in most of Asia.

I'm fully aware that my vision of a European bicameral parliament can't be implemented tomorrow. I'm also not an integration fanatic.

I do not employ tricks when I attack.

It's true that fashion is looking at fashion all the time, and this is quite boring.

I wanted to become a better Snoop Dogg, full of water, proteins and stuff to keep me alive . . . lollipops and Big Macs.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.