All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.

There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.

My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.

Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.

Love is the beauty of the being.

It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!

You are amazing person with unique talents. Have faith in your abilities.

Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache.

I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.

Hip-hop is always moving. It's always looking for the next style; it's always trying to one-up the last person.

It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

Those who succeed have a clear, focused picture of their success. The level of success they attain matches the expansiveness of their dreams

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.