I think looks do matter on television.
This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.
As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.
Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.
We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.
I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99.
[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality. . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.
The Public provides freedom. . . Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases.
Philosophy must never be divorced from action. Unless it is put into practice, philosophy is nothing more than an intellectual game.
You get a wonderful view from the point of no return.
I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.