Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.

We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet.

Love is proved in the letting go.

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.

They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.

High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.

Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all.

It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is.

Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.

There are clothes which keep rejuvenating themselves instead of getting worn out.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.

It was a different sexual situation going on than it is in the '80s and '90s, and I did a very poor job of describing that.