Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

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.

Love is not blind, lovers can see what others cannot see.

To reciprocate God’s love is to have his love nature

Dare to live by letting go.

You were the vampire in my dream. My perfect one.

It’s not the upfront capital that kills you, it’s the operations and maintenance on the back end.

Atheists think the devil is just a silly as God is.

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.

What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.

Every cell in us worships God.

Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.