The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.

There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.

My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.

Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

The loveliest gifts sometimes come wrapped in the ugliest paper.

I'm yours, for eternity!

They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.

And strange-eyed constellations reignHis stars eternally.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.

And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

Call upon the Goddess and God to protect you and teach you the secrets of magic. Ask stones and plants to reveal their powers - and listen.