But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

In the end, there is no end.

We feel the machine slipping from our hands As if someone else were steering; If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train.

The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.

History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.

A powerful church is capable of transforming our world to God’s kingdom standard

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

Obviously its nice to give your time and especially when there is money being raised. It's rewarding.

Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

What I can say is I think [Miley Cyrus] a fantastic artist. She's got a fantastic voice. I made a comment in the past that I really regret making because I never like being mean.

The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.

One is not worthy to have what one, through weakness, lets be taken from him; one is not worthy of it because one is not capable of it.

I think Hillary Clinton is vulnerable, she is not liked, she is not overwhelmingly popular.

Christmas is here, Merry old Christmas, Gift-bearing Christmas, Day of grand memories, King of the year!