It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.

You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

Dreams are a simple psychological emetic, and people who have them are more blessed than cursed

Kind deed is a seed of love.

I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller.

If everyone likes you, it probably means you aren't saying much.

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

I really don't feel as connected to Heaven as I do to the ones where I was there from start to finish. And on this record I was there for every moment.

If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.

In the future, all religions will sink, only God will remain stand still! The untruth can survive only for a while and then it sinks!

There is no possibility in any man that is not in every man

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.