To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

]sing to usthe one with violets in her lap]mostly]goes astray

People have always thought I was "on" something. After a while I began to think they knew something I didn't know! But I don't know, I just love living. And I love doing what I do.

Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

If you want to know somebody, fight 'em. Have a fistfight with them.

Don't stop moving - the best time of your life is just around the corner!

There are those that hate and those that love, it all works out the same.

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes.

If I could get any semblance of - it's not really anonymity, but a little bit more - control over my public image, I guess that would be nice.