As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world

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.

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.

The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.

I really believe in setting goals, no matter what it is: whether it's losing five pounds or making the world championship team.

I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)

What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!

Nobody should mistreat anybody. Homosexuals should not be mistreated. Heterosexuals should not be mistreated. Bisexuals should not be mistreated.

I play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police.

It's just so weird when an entire nation knows what you are going through.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.