O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.

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.

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

Erasing national borders does not make people safer or more prosperous. It undermines democracy and trades away prosperity.

For me, when I watch something without music, I'm instantly thinking, "Okay, what am I going to do here? How am I going to convey this?" I take notes and really think about that.

I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.

I think it's the pro-abortion people who are doing this to collect on their insurance, so they can go out and build bigger and better killing centers.

If there is ever a time that impeachment would be appropriate, this is certainly the time.

It’s been a full week since she left and all you’ve done is sulk like a dying cow. (Kish)

My own personal experience has become more first-hand.

To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience of the thing.

If it is a good song, it is a good song. The Beatles were pop, the beach boys were pop and it's the best music of all time.