You can't write a poem until you live.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much for a poem?

I was asked once why I write poetry. I said, why do you breath?

when you're a poetyou can dish out whatever'son your mind and you don't have toapologize for it

​Oh God, it is amazing that men can talk so much about man's creaturely power and goodness, when, if thou didst not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incar​​nate.

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

One more sign of how perfect Damen is—he keeps a pair of trunks in his car.

When you smile it's like the sun coming up.

The Supreme Court kept me from my freedom.

When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self.

I once went out with this girl, she was no bargain either, she showed up with pigtails under her arms.

A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?