Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.

I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

What seems to be a chaotic life is just a systematic, engineered Life driven for a purpose!!! The day you find peace in chaos, the game changes!

Memories are worse than bullets.

Action is thought tempered by illusion.

If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.

The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.

But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

Miracles are experiences that take us by surprise.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was