To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.

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.

I'm not a girl that will lay in diamonds but I will run through the flowers of the seeds we plant together.

Let your dream scream at you when you lose focus.

So grateful for those who truly love me... they hear everything I don't say.

Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth But has trouble enough of its own.

How can you not care?" "Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.

The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.

I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.

And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.