I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.

I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

Try your best, before any rest. Life gets its beauty from the best.

He says I'm beautiful as a red tomato

Pritchard tutted. "Justice? Justice is even more problematic than truth. It's an emergent property of a very complicated system.

Dear Cake, You're AWESOME. That is all

But cycling is less a hobby than it is a discipline with the potential to transform you. It brings balance.

In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?

It wasn't too difficult to see that [Ian] Paisley would never do anything positive.

I know what my talents are, and at the end of the day I'm an actor who can dance.

Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.

Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.