When you read and understand a poem comprehending its rich and formal meanings then you master chaos a little.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

I think continually of those who were truly great.

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

All that you can imagine you already know.

So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself

All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

It occurred to me then that the man might not be mad

The industrial stomach cannot live without coal industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.

Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being.

Gentlemen prefer blondes.

I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.

You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.

In a real relationship the two of you are together, meeting without your histories.

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch-that is, who should be listened to and when.

The usefulest truths are the plainest.