Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home.

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.

We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness.

When we are in Christ His goals are now our goals, and we are to be busy with his work on earth.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

A free ride and free food are two of the three things no pilot ever turns down.

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.

Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.

The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!