Lawyers love paper. They eat, sleep and dream paper. They turn paper into gold, and their files are colorful and their language neoclassical and calli-graphically bewigged.

Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers.

Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?

Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.

How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially poets.

Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it difficult to connect yesterday with tomorrow.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Sometimes you must do crazy things to discover the life beyond your life, to enter the unknown zone beyond your known zone!

I am a Jewish mother. My dying words will be, “Put a jumper on

Though familiarity may not breed contempt it takes off the edge of admiration.

My best vacation memory is getting barreled at the beach in Hawaii.

The best answer to bad speech is good speech

If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.

It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.

If you love the planet or the neighborhood - you're finding ways to satisfy the soul of the planet or satisfy the soul of the neighborhood.

As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.