Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions.

Seagulls . . . slim yachts of the element.

Meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies, Let the rich life run to the roots again.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

The Russians don't make determinations about what our defense posture is.

A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.

I once showed Pat Bradley my swing and said, 'What do I do next?' Pat replied, 'Wait till the pain dies down.'

Live performances make music important. Recording is cool and fun, and it's nice to document the thing you made, but the goal in my mind is to perform.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

You can only do two things with your life: give it away or throw it away.

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.