It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.

There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.

My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.

Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

When the heart is on fire, light comes from within.

For me, sitting still is harder than any kind of work.

The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.

You are as crooked as a bank robber if you do not pay your debts on time.

You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player.

The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.

A woman makes an outfit her own with accessories.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Not since Reggie White have the Packers had a pass rusher of this magnitude.

by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them