It is the sun that shares our works. The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

And how do you know that these fine begonias are not of equal importance?

society has an embarrassing history of denial

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future.

We are indeed the light of the world-but only if our switch is turned on.

I had my palm read. I wrote something on it first to see if she would read that too.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.