The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

Dreams have as much influences as actions.

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Romance novels could teach a man a thing or two, if he was smart enough to open his mind and really see.

I was always searching. I became a Buddhist in my twenties when I came to Los Angeles. I met a group of people who I really loved.

That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.

First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.

I tend to really like things that are broken, I like the ones that are perfectly imperfect.

We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

The first day I went to law school, I realized I'd made a huge mistake. It was nothing like what I thought.

We need a leader who understands the moral case for free enterprise.