The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.

The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.

I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.

Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.

We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.

Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.

This world becomes heaven when we learn to see the beauty in and around us and enjoy them every moment.

Ubi boni, malum prosperat (Where good men are silent, evil prospers)

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

If life has taught me anything it’s to appreciate what you’ve got. Take something for granted and it could be gone before you even realized what you had.

I as an artist, as an individual, I have a certain affect on people.

My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.

I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always give one hundred percent; and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day.

I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.

The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.

I pay the bills, I pay for everything.