There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.

There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.

My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.

Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.

In this lies Man's true freedom: in determination to worship only the God created by our own love of the good.

Creativity is a flow, an abstract and an imagination.

I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.

If you think your picture needs something, take something out.

Laugh at your friends, And if your friends are sore; So much the better, You may laugh the more.

Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm, that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.

[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.

You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.