Time is a storm in which we are all lost.

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.

To live life as anything less than love is not to live life at all.

Look, this is helping me out quite a bit, but could you just get to the punishment part? We're at the end of World War Two in history, and I can't wait to find out who wins.

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.

God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes.

I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts

I'm Santa Claus to these hoes without a reindeer.

What you are looking for is within you

For me, movies should be visual. If you want dialogue, you should read a book.