I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will we see that we were here!

As long you are still living, you can achieve far more than you could ever imagined

In music, she'd found a perfect language, a way of expressing the inexpressible.

Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.

The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.