If you don't love the poor, you don't know what God's done for you.
You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.
What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe
There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
Find out what you do best, and then don't do it.
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
Growing up, I was utterly oblivious to the fact that Mom was teaching me all that. But I was instantly aware of her final lesson, which was hidden in her notes and leters. As I read them I began to understand that in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, Mom showed me that it is never too late to find out how to do it.
One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state.
I jog up to the Hollywood sign every weekend. It's fun and what a view!
Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.