I will teach you my townspeople how to perform a funeral for you have it over a troop of artists unless one should scour the world you have the ground sense necessary.

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.

There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.

My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.

Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.

Written soul is called poetry

~ Not every poem is meant for oral stimulation, some are better devoured mentally.

An owl sound wandered along the road with me.I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.

The holidays stress people out so much. I suggest you keep it simple and try to have as much fun as you can.

We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

Adversity is an opportunity for heroism.

An autumn night - don’t think your life didn’t matter.

However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent.

We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean.

Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.