High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.

Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.

We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet.

Love is proved in the letting go.

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.

They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.

Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.

Every man needs God's mercy.

Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.

Tolerence ought to be humanities community and knowledge should be an individuals goal.

The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.

Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever.

I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.

When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax.

Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

Don't say you love somebody and then change your mind ... Love isn't like picking what movie you want to watch.

I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the world.