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.

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.

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.

The best ideas are common property

An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.

Sometimes you want to remember. And sometimes you need to forget.

The waves of love roll throughout the Universe, and overflow in our hearts..Everything is ONE!

I can’t feel too sorry for them. Every gift has to run out someday. Anyone but a child knows that.

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.

After my divorce, I was struggling to find my own voice. Through reading, I gained my power back.

Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.

Life and death are the same...Leave karma to karma.