There is no comment on pictures but pictures, on music but music, on poems but poetry. If you do, you do. If you don't, you don't. And that's all there is to that.

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

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.

Fairness isn’t getting what everyone else gets. Fairness is getting what you need.

You can't fight light by using darkness.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

I couldn't write a political song. There's just opinion; it's all arbitrary anyway. It's all subjective.

As we lose ourselves in the service of others, we discover our own lives and our own happiness.

Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance.

Don’t just look for your miracle. Become someone else's miracle.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Give praise to others while they are here; they won't need it in the hereafter.