It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.

There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.

My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.

Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.

Thought I wanted overnight success, until I achieved it through hard work and the refusal to back down! What you earn, you keep.

Ain’t I your man?” he persisted.“Yeah, Ellis, you’re my man.” Her lips quaked as she said it.

Change is not always easy, but with patience and perseverance, we can find the good in change.

Impression without expression causes depression. Study without service leads to spiritual stagnation.

I feel like there are so many people I admire for so many reasons that I can't look at one person's life and say, "I want that life." I want to make my own history.

I get paid to ask questions I don't know the answers to and to complain about the things that bother me.

Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite.

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.

I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention.