The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.

I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

Is he all scarred now?”“Magic gets rid of most physical scars, but I like to think I scarred him emotionally.

When success is uniform, the celebration becomes universal. Of which use is it to you to rejoice at the time your friend cries?

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

Knowing that wishes don’t always come about in the way that we think, but if you believe and keep your mind open, there’s a really good chance they will manifest in some way.

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

My mom and my dad never pushed me into performing. They never prohibited me from trying anything, or being anything. They never restricted me in any way. For which I'll be forever grateful.

The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set