A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.

Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Our planet is poorly equipped for delight. One must snatch gladness from the days that are. In this life it's not difficult to die. To make life is more difficult by far.

If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers!

In the church of my heart the choir is on fire

Listen! If stars are lit It means there is someone who needs it, It means someone wants them to be, That someone deems those specks of spit Magnificent!

I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood - what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower of slanting rain.

Gentle souls! You play your love on the violin. The crude ones play it on the drums violently. But can you turn yourselves inside out, like me And become just two lips entirely?

On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words.

But I, from poetry's skies, plunge into communism, because without it I feel no love.

Good character keeps good brand safely. Bad character destroys hard earned brands.

there are these places on your poem, / where I want to write bodies.

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.

As the economy grows, so will the demand for energy.

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.

With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.

I could tell you what my good qualities are. There's my honesty; I have a very wacky, kind of dry humor that a lot of people don't get to see.