The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

In a dream you are never eighty.

Death's in the good-bye.

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Need is not quite belief.

God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.

Be careful of words they can be both daisies and bruises.

Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.

It doesnt matter who my father was. It matters who I remember he was.

It doesnt matter who my father was it matters who I remember he was.

Depression is boring I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea a boat that floats home or does not.

The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives

It is June. I am tired of being brave.

The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.

A starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.

Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.

Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out

It is love that walks away and yet we have terrible mouths and soft milk hands. We worry with like. We walk away like love.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds.

Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children.

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity.

But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.

But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time.

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now.

I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this.