It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes That all things have their center in their dying.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.

You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

We hold on to poetry because it lights a fire in our soul and keeps our bodies warm.

Debate, but do not argue.Challenge, but do not force your opinions.To win an argument, but lose a friendship, is a loss.To lose an argument, but retain a friendship, is gain.

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

I never felt I could be a complete professional without having won the British Open. It was something you had to do to complete your career.

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

Your hair is much too long, Ronald, for a moment I thought you were Ginevra.

Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.

I've discovered there is another life besides baseball. You have to be balanced to be a happy person.