The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.

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.

Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them.

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

My children are all doing just fine. The mountain dogs are great in this weather. The yorkies are freezing.

This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. And they say Obama's not black enough!

The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of the growing gap between the two, and of the rich fouling their own nests.

I'll tickle his catastrophe.

There is nothing wrong with you. God asks the most of those he loves best.

Courage refuses frontiers!

Acknowledge all man as fellow creation, but don't follow him.

Speaking of which, would you like to explain to me how you’re alive