You claim to love God, and yet you disobey GodThis is a bizarre way of reasoningSurely, the lover, if his love is true, Is most obedient to the one he loves.

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.

And remember this most of all: when it is darkest, that is when you can see the stars most clearly.

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

If the partridge didn't call at the wrong moment, Neither the hunter nor the falcon would know of it. It follows from this point also, That everyone's voice betrays him.

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you're the one that bleeds.

There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.

It's ridiculous, how people judge talent. Or, rather, don't judge. They just default to what everyone else thinks.

You can’t mind these things, you just can’t, for to dislike what makes a person human is to dislike all humans.

We played this game from the west village to the upper east side til around midnight when the Chrysler building was far behind us and we weren’t sure if we were in love anymore.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

If you believe in others and give them a positive reputation to uphold, you can help them to become better than they think they are.

If you break someone's leg, shouldn't you have to be the crutch for a while?

Holding on to things only breaks your heart.