I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever.

Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?

I like to step into areas where I am afraid. Fear is a sign that I am going in the right direction.

I can't stand to hear my own voice. If one of my songs comes on in a café, I'll run out right away and come back with the police.

He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology.

The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

I want each album to say something different and be accepted better than the last one but I don't have any point to outdo any particular album of mine.

The American economy has always been the innovator in the world, and we're starting to see some tremendous increases in innovation, especially in the clean energy sector.

Praise in public; criticize in private.