What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.

I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

Find out what you do best, and then don't do it.

You know you're on the right path when you look around and see people you want to be like!

Nobody me without my enemy.

Accidents can happen at any time.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'

If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more jobs.