Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

In the New World, happiness is enforced.

A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.

Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.

I am moving deeper into my own brain.

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

Everyone keeps saying, "Oh my God, oh my God, how intimidating." It's like saying, "How could you date Jennifer Aniston after she's been with Brad Pitt?" I don't care.

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention

Why can I not fight for my country too?

Reduce US military presence in Iraq; and bring in neighbors.

Financial security puts me at ease and makes me reel good about my future

We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

We should realize there are so many things that us together rather than the things that keep us apart.