Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse-- at least, blinded by the light, young love is.

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.

Once again, my hero. And here I’m supposed to be the one saving him.

Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.

She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.

The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.

I'm so lucky to be crazy happy in my life. And I think it's not so much that I'm happier now than ever; it's that I'm more content. I'm in the harbor of my life.

Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

I prefer men to cauliflowers