... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is.

The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.

Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.

Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.

To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.

The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.

New gods arise when they are needed.

What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness?

The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for.

Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.

You can't be a little bit saintly any more than you can be a little bit pregnant.

With Cosmic Ordering, the best days of your life are always ahead of you.

Measure your life by the value you have added.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

Women have helped shape our world, yet still do not receive the recognition and compensation they deserve.

An idea is worthless unless you use it.

The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.

An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.

I'll be looking at the moon, but I'll be seeing you.

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

If you took an IQ test, the results would be negative.