A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

In the New World, happiness is enforced.

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.

Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.

I am moving deeper into my own brain.

Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.

I was into sports and dancing. I ran track. I have a lot of stamina.

I love sports. I play golf now, which is relatively new for me. I only took it up about five years ago. I also like playing piano, and I love being with my family and friends.

So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

Drink wine, not labels.

If it takes 30 days of rehearsal, you better ace all 30 of those days. When it's game time, you're ready to play ball.

I woke to a bucket of ice water in my face. “Sadie! Get up,” Zia said. “God!” I yelled. “Was that necessary?” “No,” admitted Zia.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.