I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.

I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation.

Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.

Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.

Love being the only flower that opens and reaches for the light. Light will always come, because it longs to be reached for, and darkness is put away.

Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

We are more united than ever before. I think this was exemplified in a very moving way when the members of our Congress stood shoulder to shoulder the other day and sang God Bless America.

We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.

The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

Well I sup and well I dine, When I drink my frolic wine.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.