Each moment is a place you've never been.

The future is always beginning now.

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

If the gift of God is for personal use and gain, God would have used it personally

I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.

False zeal is every day bringing true zeal into disrepute.

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.

Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.

Some people do better on their own. I don't.

The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.

In order to successfully impersonate men, the woman [Margaret Thatcher] launched a war.

Mean comedy is not really something that I personally gravitate towards or something that I do.

In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces - never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen.