Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.

The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given by those lines.

Things explain each other, not themselves.

It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than you know.

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

[It is not] the poet's business to use verse as an advanced form of rhetoric, nor to give to political statements the aura of eternal truth.

We are all born to fly. Instead, we sit on the branches afraid of the leap into the unknown. But the unknown is where enlightenment lives. Our true nature is the unknown.

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

When you really respect somebody who does something different from you, your respect is for the quality of the job.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.

How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?

We believe in individual merit as a means of gaining salvation

When you've lived as long as I have, nothing much surprises you.

Ukyo Katayama is undoubtedly the best Formula One driver that Grand Prix racing has ever produced

Perhaps one of the most important lessons that I continue to have reinforced is to always have faith and believe in yourself. To never lose sight of who you are and to know yourself.