A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.

The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.

I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.

Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.

We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.

Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.

You will have to defy the odds, for you to be extraordinary.

Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.

Spring's greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.

The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends.

Backstage at the Victoria's Secret show is pure madness. Big personalities, big hair, and tons of press.

It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

The end does not justify the means. If we try to be someone we are not in order to achieve a result, then the result cannot help but be something other than what we intended.

We wouldn't want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We'd be rich!