What power has love but forgiveness?In other wordsby its interventionwhat has been donecan be undone.What good is it otherwise?

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.

Wars are won in the will.

Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift.

You can try to reestablish your connection to Heaven - the connection we all have available to us but have forgotten, or are afraid to use. Then trust the wisdom and guidance that comes forward.

I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

To think is to destroy.

Who needs to go the horror movies? Just go outside or turn on the TV. Buddha called it the "nightmare of the day." Welcome to incarnate experience.

Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.

I started to get grossed out by the armpits.

Men become friends by a community of pleasures.