I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.

The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.

I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.

Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.

We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.

Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.

My knight may not wear a coat of shining armor, but his code of glowing honor will never fail to protect us both from evils far worse than any fire-breathing dragon.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.

It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.

I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?

What you do comes from what you think.

Casting the right actor for the right part is some unspoken thing between the two of you to communicate.

A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another.

All I ever do is learn from my mistakes so I don't make the same ones again. Then I make new ones.

This is nothing. The last couple of batches of [Hillary Clinton's] emails have revealed exactly nothing. Now, who is pushing this notion that there was a quid pro quo in the State Department?