If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

The future is always beginning now.

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

Each moment is a place you've never been.

Writing about joyful experiences for just three days can improve people's moods and decrease their visits to health centers a full three months later.

Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.

The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.

I'm like a monkey. You don't let go of one branch until you get a hold of the other.

Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.

Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

The first thing any coaching staff must do is weed out selfishness. No program can be successful with players who put themselves ahead of the team.

Malcolm X already envisioning the N.O.I. playing a role cooperatively with integrationist organizations.

Mistakes were mistakes, and failures were failures. Why torment someone with the memories of their past?

When I'm onstage, I hope it looks like what I want to see - the lights, the pyro, the band.