A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

All a poet can do today is warn.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.

And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

When preparing a presentation, it’s never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you’re focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.

Simple is the speech of truth.

Well no, I think we won't have that problem but as far as paparazzi I'm speaking, I will deal with that.

I have been asked to pose for Penthouse on my hundredth birthday. Everybody is going to be sorry.

I can't imagine what it would be like being James Bond 24 hours. That must be exhausting.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.

The master understands that the universe is forever out of control

The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.

Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their version of the story is the correct one.

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.