Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

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.

This is the strangest life I have ever known.

There's no secret to winning. Act boldly when you need to, and be cautious when you must.

Why waste time for a love partner, while you've already wasted a lot of time for your self.

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'

The present system is unsustainable. The only question is whether we will master the change or it will master us.

There's only one Michael Jordan.

Sometimes consciousness devises an obstacle in order to have the experience of transcending it.

Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.

If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.