To make a start, out of particulars and make them general, rolling up the sum, by defective means Sniffing the trees, just another dog among a lot of dogs.What else is there? And to do?

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.

Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

If I flew for you, you would still be standing.

...the simple task of getting dressed and undressed was a real strain, but nothing could compare with her addiction to deep sleep...

A great man does not lose his self-possession when he is afflicted the ocean is not made muddy by the falling in of its banks.

No statement about God is simply literally true. God is far more than can be measured described defined in ordinary language or pinned down to any particular happening.

I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continue to respond to foreign initiatives by saying, 'You must be joking.'

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

If you take a needle and stick her in the booty and take a needle and stick me in the booty, we're both going to say ouch.