I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.

I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

I want to beat the best out there and whoever is considered the top fighters of my era.

I do not wish to help Jeremy Clarkson be amusing in the event of my death.

Kids haven't changed - you have.

The idea of not getting a gun is not because I'm afraid of guns, it's not because I think guns are wrong, it's because it's impractical, it's stupid and it's exactly what they want me to do.

Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.