In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

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.

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.

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.

I wanted freedom in the same way I wanted my next breath: an unspoken but constant desire.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Begin with a new goal and with a new enthusiasm to create abundance in your life.

Your dreams will only take you as far as your faith in them.

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

Barack Obama will go down alongside George W. Bush in that realm as middling presidents because both made too many mistakes to be categorized as an effective, good president.

Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.

So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to look stupid.