To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.

The future is always beginning now.

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.

I’d have to say, you’ve got something behind those hazel eyes of yours that I haven’t seen in a long time

No part of you is dark or ugly,' I said sharply, squeezing his hand. 'Not to me, not ever. Do you understand?

Flood your mind continually with pictures of the health, happiness, and prosperity that you desire.

You live eighty years, and at best you get about six minutes of pure magic.

Don't listen to the cynics. They were wrong about my generation and they were wrong about yours.

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this double allegiance.

Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.

What are you thinking?” She asks. -That you are beautiful. That not everyone could see it. I almost became the kind of person who could not.