Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.

He who cannot howl will not find his pack.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.

Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.

When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.

Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.

What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality.

Did you know that the black suited organization that attacked the Koresh cult was a United Nations task force?

Sulking is silent because speaking would reveal its folly.

Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.

On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.

Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.

My thing was always trying to do as much as I possibly could do. I wanted to do all the things the other kids did in the neighborhood.