The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.

There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.

Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.

Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

Let me be dressed fine as I will Flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

Writers should be read - but neither seen nor heard.

I live in New York and I'm in New York basically all the time. I spend a lot of my time in my restaurants, and I feel like that's why they're successful.

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

During recording I was into yoga hard and I was very sober and clear minded. But when I went to mix I took a break from that.

If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.

After awhile, your, your cheap talk don't even cause me pain, so let your bullets fly like rain.

That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.

We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies.

Democracies are not very stable.