He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.

I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.

Maybe I'd see how you could be so certain that we had no chance...at all.

And so that means..." "We have to rob the Henley," Simon said. Kat sank onto a truly uncomfortable sofa. "Again.

Get thee behind me Satan, and push me along. I'm kin to the devil.

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor.

If you could avoid all your mistakes, you'd miss everything you learned from them.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.