Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

You can break a man with hope.

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

Too much war, hatred and fear in the world.Desperately needed: More art, love and poetry.

A person who does not get attached to anything, and never forgets to do his duty, will achieve everything.

That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.

All people are half actors.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

My wife gets mad because we'll be in the middle of something and I'll stop and say, 'No, I've got to write this down!' She'll say, 'No! We're in a discussion!' I say, 'I know, but it's hilarious!

How had I become middle-aged while the ravages of time ignored her? I didn't know and didn't care, and before I could stop them, the words were already out. "You're beautiful," I murmured.

I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.