A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

The future is always beginning now.

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

If kindness wins, accountability rules.

You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.

It is pointless to try to make an illusion real

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

I have to take care of myself because if you get sick, you still have to work. Im not much a party animal, anyway. I lay low.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Laughter is good medicine for the soul. Our world is desperately in need of more medicine.

When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.

How your customers learn about your product is part of your product. The medium is the message.

I don’t sit around complaining about the lack of good roles. I will play Raj 85 times and still make him different.