Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.

I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God.

Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.

These people who build houses with 13 bathrooms and so on, there's something wrong with them.

Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with, the greater variety of information that is coming forth, than you did.

He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

I say, if you're going to eat a creature alive, you have to expect some screaming. That is the carnivore's burden.

I'm always shocked when actors have diva-esque behavior.

Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

Your greatest failure will precede your greatest success.