A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

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.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.

William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.

You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

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.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe thats the worst sentence of all to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

And I to my motorcycle Parked like the soul of the junkyard Restored, a bicycle fleshed With power, and tore off Up Highway 106 continually Drunk on the wind in my mouth Wringing the handlebar for speed Wild to be wreckage forever.

If you think it's going to rain, it will.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing.

People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way.

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.

I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain.

It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.

I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.

I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again.

Our journey so far has been very satisfactory: we are most fortunate as regards the season, for there has been more rain this winter than has been known for the last four or five years.

The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.