All poetry is experimental poetry.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.

Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday.

The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!

Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.

When people thank you for doing something, you begin to realize how truly blessed you were to have been put in that position.

My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world.

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

I dream of a Digital India where technology ensures the Citizen-Government interface is incorruptible.

I attended college in Los Angeles and wore black pumps to work every day.

A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.