The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.

Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit of measure.

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

But here I hold your dream in my poem.

Curled up in bed, I’m young in the old way.

We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

The crowd is made of little gods, and there is still no heaven.

The fear that all this will end. The fear that it won't.

We sleep together in the dark but confuse light with love.

clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?

Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief.

Experience is the best teacher.

Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.

When you've become strong enough and developed enough, the teacher will fall away.

A good runner leaves no footprints.

My weight is always perfect for my height - which varies.

It is clearly important for all leadership candidates to be open and transparent about their tax affairs. I was very happy to publish mine today, and hope others will follow suit.