My Muse sits forlornShe wishes she had not been bornShe sits in the coldNo word she says is ever told.

Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this.

I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else.

Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ.

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.

The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.

The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.

Some escape to LIVE. Some LIVE to escape.

They had an ugly look to one as prone to disgust and fear as the changes of a few hours had made me.

It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

The disparity between what people said life was and what I knew it to be unnerved me at times, but I swore that nothing would ever make me say life should be anything.

It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.

Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.

It's just one of those things. Everybody wants to do it, but it's really difficult. People had to wait for "Indy 4" for a decade, and the reason is because of the people involved.

In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nations largest corporations.