Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.

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.

A teacher can kindle your mind and let you memorize information, but true education is often self-education.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

I'm addicted to directing!

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her babes that I do not comprehend how He can test us so.

Pharrell has always been my style idol.

Life minus love equals zero.

If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.

Music's another big love of mine.

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.