Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

Dreams have as much influences as actions.

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

Why can’t I remember that not once have I ever seen a coin, whether grimy copper or bright gold, that had but one side.

Thus, every entity, even if it is a defective one, in so far as it is an entity, is good. In so far as it is defective, it is evil.

Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning.

Haste is a poor counselor

Love me, love my dog.

I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.

Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry ten dollars' worth of groceries. Today, a five-year-old can do it.

It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better.

The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation.

After more than twenty-five years in television, there are days when I feel like I'm just beginning, because I'm learning new things. I want to be better all the time.