We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.

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.

In some way or another we are all agnostics. We don’t believe in ninety-nine percent of Gods, and we don’t know the ultimate reality.

Unhealthy gossiping is one way that divides heaven and hell.

I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes in between songs, so people don't leave feeling too dark.

Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask.

If youre a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else.

Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.

I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.

I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.

If you no longer have any income, you will not be neglected-you will not starve to death. . . . We panic at first, but God does not always allow the evil that is feared to happen.