If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

I think continually of those who were truly great.

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

All that you can imagine you already know.

So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself

All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane.

I wanted two girls, " she said. "You and your sister. I wanted exactly what I had. Other people's children are too hard

The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.

You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.

A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.

Stay in shape. And remember, daily exercise is a must. Plan for it, and do it. The rewards will be well worth it.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.

I cringe every time I see no evidence of push-back by the Republican Party on Obama policies.

Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else.

Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.