But the sea which no one tends is also a garden

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.

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

Do you remember a scene with Ryan and Ali playing in the snow? Well, that was improvised.

I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.

Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.

I spend way more than I should...and way less than I want.

Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of the seed that you lovingly planted.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.

Pass through knowledge to arrive at simplicity.