Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.

I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity.

Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How else could it trip me as as I start to run?

She had dealt with her pregnancy by wrapping herself in dreams.

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.

Truth [is] what is better for us to believe.

I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.

I am very proud of my name. My full name is Richard Treat Williams.