beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.

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.

One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.

I watch very little television, actually. There's so many shows I want to watch and then I know I'll get hooked and I have to binge-watch the entire thing.

If things get too much for you and you feel the whole world's against you, go stand on your head. If you can think of anything crazier to do, do it.

I always loved the style of Jean Seberg, Jane Birkin and Marilyn Monroe.

They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.

The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.

Whatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local community and family.

One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.

If we don't acknowledge and accept where we are failing, then we'll never do the work that it takes to make it right for US.

The most destitute person in the world is the one without a smile.