Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

If you want change and don’t make choices that reflect the change, you are making a choice to keep things the same.

Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.

There is really a whole new appreciation when you leave and then come back.

Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we'll shake England for God.

The best relationships are when you both want to make each other happy - you buy the groceries, I do the dishes.

During my time in the entourages of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, I never saw either of them attack and punish those who disagree, as Dobson does on a regular basis.

You just never know when it might be cookie time. And, that is what the dogs have taught me.