When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat

Most fathers and... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

Pitches are like wives, you never know how they're going to turn out.

You were never poor as long as you had something to love.

If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

India wants to help Nepal build highways (H), information highways (I) and transways - transmission lines (T).

when fate is very generous with us, there is always a well into which all our dreams can tumble.

Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.

If Bach is not in Heaven, I am not going!