The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

There is another world, but it is in this one.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

I love foolish people because I am not enough of a fool to not love them.

I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.

I like my customer to be fierce.

Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.

I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

You don't grow old. You get old by not growing.

I think as time goes on that generation of rappers who's making it now is gonna face the same thing that my generation was facing, which is the decrease of sales. The decrease of hard-copies.