So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.

There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.

My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.

Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.

Knowledge , surely, is always of time , whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.

I think that if there can be considered racism it's to do with the lack of opportunities for writers and producers and the people behind the camera.

According to my local hip-hop station everyone has garnish wages, child support, liens and wants to buy or rent rims. Ya Heard!

For the person who wants to get to the mystical experience directly, Tantric Buddhism is the path.

You should just go, go to work, work hard, be a perfectionist, be a workhorse. If you work 10 years straight, you'll be comfortable and set for life. That is a fact.

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.

God gives us the vision, then He expects us to walk in obedience. As we do, the resources we need come to us.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.

You can never be absolutely certain that anything doesn't exist. But you can show that it's unlikely.