Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.

Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It's too high! Come to the edge! And they came, and he pushed, and they flew.

Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced

And he who is forever talking about enemies / Is himself the enemy!

Come to the edge.We might fall.Come to the edge.It's too high!COME TO THE EDGE!And they cameAnd he pushedAnd they flew.

Honour to Agamemnon is a thing / That he can pick, pick up, put back, pick up again, / A somesuch you might find beneath your bed.

When I was little, my mother used to tell me that the universe was made in sparks. Would that mean that at the beginning, someone had clacked two cosmic stones together?.

It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.

If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?

There are a lot of powerful women in Hollywood who have been movie stars for a long time who are getting into their forties and fifties. I still want to see them work.

I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.

Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? 200,000.

If you ever lit a cigarette in your life, you have very little will to live.

Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice.

I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.

There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.