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

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.

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.

I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.

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.

Loving yourself is the single most important thing you can do to create the life of your dreams.

I have been to the speed of God, sir...and I discommend it.

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.

I don't think there's any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that - that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.

Americans are so dumb!

But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.

I don't know if people know this but I am pretty good at chess. I was always on the chess team at school when I was younger.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord.