One of the things that's crucial to me about love is that it has to be in the moment.

Love is not a promissory note.

I don't want to say that the creativity would give out - I can't imagine what argument I would bring forward for that. But I think that there's something on the individual level that's a limitation.

Different development itself runs the threat of making life shapeless.

To live in the moment and in the future at the same time would seem to me to be the trick.

For a second, my hand touched yours, but that second is gone, and cannot be seen, heard or felt ever again. This second is gone, too, the moment in which I spoke by your side. It is dead. Let it die.

When you are in love with someone you want to be near him all the time except when you are out buying things and charging them to him.

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

These are the days of bootleg love.

Habit is the most imperious of all masters.

When you have learned God's secret of trusting, you will see that a life yielded up to His working is one of rest and power.

I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.