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.

The future is always beginning now.

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.

Each moment is a place you've never been.

Maybe, it wasn't stuck in my mind. Maybe, just maybe, it was stuck in my heart for so long that it grew wings and wanted to fly, but didn't know how.

I'm bad when it comes to giving advice and best at expressing myself.

Perhaps we are all too small-minded to glimpse creation, even out little corner of it.

going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you set aside—to say, ‘This is the way it was.’

Spiritual evolution is part of every soul's destiny on Earth, and each soul grows and evolves at a different rate. You are right where you need to be.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

Don't consider me too demanding if I ask you once again to set great store by holy books and read them as much as you can. This spiritual reading is as necessary to you as the air you breathe.

When I saw the script [of The Man], I saw the character and knew I could do the character. It's a relationship movie, which is also what I love to do. That's what attracts me to projects.

The more I travel, the more I see how important it is to each population to see that their history of the good and the bad is remembered by others.

If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.