Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

If you have something to say, make it meaningful, all else is meaningless.

You’re only as strong as your biggest weakness.

I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.

I don't know if anything in nature ever grows exactly the same, but they are always exactly as the way it should be, perfectly itself.

Come back and stand with us, lad. We will all go down together that's what makes us who we are.

If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk about, it's also dangerous.

Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.

With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.