Poetry cannot be explained, it must be lived.

I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry.

Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.

Everyone was always becoming someone else.Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old. How can aguy who’s about to turn seventeen feel old?

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

The man who says his prayers in the evening is a captain posting his sentries. After that he can sleep.

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

I am a party! Everywhere I go is a party!

When you rest in presence and pure awareness, sometimes everything is experienced as love because you're connected with all that is, and love is simply the nature of being.

What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.

The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

Lindsay Lohan was the 'It' girl from, like, 14. That's a lot of pressure.

I feel healthy! I feel happy! I feel terrific!