Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

We can't tell our life from our wish

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

We are so rebellious that when we die our cells refuse to live a second longer. But our souls they live always....

Happiness is a tide: it carries you only a little way at a time but you have covered a vast space before you know that you are moving at all.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Life's too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line because you've laughed too much. To me, that's a bit warped.

Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.

Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.

I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands.

Every day, there's a new development. ... There's no limit to the things that are happening.