You can't make love without art.
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
The hallmark of a free society is that I may totally disapprove of what you say, but I'll defend your right to say it until I die.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.
Every day is a different day in New York; there's always something new going on.
One good way to start writing poetry is to read all kinds of poetry: not just in order to imitate but to fill up your head with it, to absorb it, to make poetry an essential part of how you view the world.
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.