Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone

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.

The worship of God shouldn’t be done in church alone, but in all our actions and our attitude towards His creation

A ‘biomass’ man is not deeply analyzing things to draw a meaningful conclusions

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

I used to think how dangerous the world would have been if these ants were the size of dogs. They would have cut the humans in two halves just by a single strike of their flippers.

My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil?

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

It's hard to do, but I think it's really important to go back and watch yourself.

I must have been about 11 when I read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which I read, over and over again.