THESE are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night and the heart plunges lower than night.

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.

Generational oppression begins when what is meant to be transferred to one offspring has been taken over by reason of oppression.

Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.

Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.

When we bring our mind into our body, the body becomes mindful, and the mind becomes embodied

Take time to make a difference. Don't just obsess about how you can make your life better. Think about how you can make somebody else's life better as well.

The challenge is for the graphic designer to turn data into information and information into messages of meaning.

Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child.

Unique and different is the new generation of beautiful… You dont have to be like everybody else. In fact I don’t think you should.

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.