Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

In the New World, happiness is enforced.

A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.

Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.

I am moving deeper into my own brain.

Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.

The beauty of being alive is that each day you are given another chance to correct what you did wrong and improve on what you can do right.

sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.

Live your life, listen to your music way to loud, be crazy and as different as you want to be and always remember your not alone

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.

The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.

Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child.

I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.

Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.