The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

If you are not angry with your average performance, you can't effect a change! You must get upset to grab the energy to break the fence confining you!

We could all have been killed -or worse, expelled.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Nothing lasts forever but we always try, and I just can't help but wonder why we let it pass us by

I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.

Adjust my dreams for me.

The griefs of private men are soon allayed, But not of kings.

The political face of Europe is one that has said very clearly that it wants cooperation and friendship with the United States.

Heroes are born to be troublemakers.

What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.