I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on

I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

I was run over by the truth one day.Ever since the accident I've walked this way

I don't like writing essays or theory.

The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.

I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured.And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.

There will be days that I don't think we'll know how to survive. But we will, because we have each other.

Once we become tethered to the network, we really don't need to keep computers busy. THEY KEEP US BUSY.

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.

One who has a why can endure anyhow.

In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light.

The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.

Life is a gift. Never take it for granted.

I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs.