Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

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.

Min ene sko knirker af mangel på stjerneskud

Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an acquaintance said: "Poor Matt, he's going to Heaven, no doubt – but he won't like God.

It's always better to be wise than to be smart.

As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.

The difference between who you are and who you want to be, is what you do.

I'm born in Alaska, grew up in Colorado, went to college in Colorado, went to Colorado State, and I actually finished my degree.

Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.

I've never made a plan for my life. I have just taken whatever opportunities have come and been very genuine with them.

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.