Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment as the poet brings to a special field.

I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes.

Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.

Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised.

Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic, Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix, Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains.

... the poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what we are.

Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

The work of the artist is to heal the soul.

And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins.

Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep.

If you won't improve yourself, who will?

When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.

What you know will keep you from what you need to know if you don't remain a novice.

I started directing out of necessity, the first play I wrote in college because I didn't know anyone who could direct it.

Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself

We're going to move left and right at the same time.

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

One should play and sweat. Life shouldn't be bogged down by books.

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.