It's a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!

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.

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

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.

In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.

Embrace high expectations from “demanding” parents if what they are demanding is your positive growth and learning.

She had a smile that could put a froth on a cup of coffee, and she knew it.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is a museum-quality specimen of the Yankee – self-righteous, ruthless, and self-aggrandizing.”--Dr. Clyde Wilson

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

I can't bear Catholicism.

Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

Absolutely, everyone and anyone can get involved in yoga. I've seen really small kids doing it in my yoga class, right up to elderly people doing it.

Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don’t have much of a vision for the future or you’re not ready to articulate it.

There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain.