I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

In the end, there is no end.

We feel the machine slipping from our hands As if someone else were steering; If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train.

The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.

History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.

Billions of dreams die off every year. I believe yours will not be part of that proportion if only you are ready to shape them!

Why is it that good always has to fight an uphill battle?"I thought for a moment, then said, "I don't know. Maybe that's the point. Good things are higher up.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses

Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.

When I was a kid, I always wanted to go to Europe, to go to Africa, to go traveling.

Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend

If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.