Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss.

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.

Sometimes that’s what it takes. Putting it all out there and hoping love wins.

If you want to become successful, then first become the person who can be successful.

Happy is very abstract, you can't touch it.

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.

Also, chubby people can never truly pull off ethereal the same way skinny people can never be jolly.

God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.

When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.