Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

In the end, there is no end.

We feel the machine slipping from our hands As if someone else were steering; If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train.

The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.

History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.

Show a man too many camels' bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. (Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz)

There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the individual can be cheerful and happy only if he has the courage to feel himself in the Whole.

I always look on the bright side of everything. If you keep aiming for some goal, you usually get there if you don't give up.

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

It would be cool for someone to ask me about some of the structural choices I make with my albums.

My nature just changes.

Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities.

Loyalty is such a rare quality; but my fans are the most loyal in the world.