The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare.

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

I would think Until I found Something I can never find; - Something Lying On the ground, In the bottom Of my mind.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

Success gives in to those who truly desire her.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into presence, and humility, and being right-sized.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

The whole objective universe is created, ordered, by our perception and by our sense of self.

In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.

How dare you say it's nothing to me? Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.

Hope does not always require probability.

If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point.

If you believe in God, that's a belief. If you are an atheist, it's a belief too, because you cannot prove that God does not exist.