How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening?

I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments ­ its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

The pain of one human being to another cannot be translated through words and for that I am certain, it will never be truly experienced again.

She probably fell asleep and was washed away by the tortoise waves!”-Arista

I know of no case in which you are to have a judicial proceeding, by which a man is to be deprived of any part of his property, without his having an opportunity of being heard.

Why do what you will regret? Why bring tears upon yourself? Do only what you do not regret, And fill yourself with joy.

I got to keep moving, I've got to keep living and I've got to keep working.

If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.

There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.

The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.

You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.

Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.