Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.

Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

One of the great things about songwrighting

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

Everything we have - every blessing, every talent - is a gift from our Father. The only thing that's all ours is our sin.

I don't want to be George Lucas and go back after the fact.

People have this idea of me being some kind of monster, and that's the complete opposite of who I am.

What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.