Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.

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.

The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them

Problems don't get better with time they become better when you find bravery. Success demands that you fight your fears.

There are few better ways to get to know how a species thinks than to learn their art.

Praise worthy is peace.

Sow into the gift and talent God has given to you to rip an harvest

There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities of the world.

A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.