One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end.

I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.

I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'

Lots of colors appear when you're working with other people.

What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

It's ok to show all your colors.

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colors that are but skin-deep.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

A lot of the American press at the time was saying 'just watch what happens when Bertelsmann tries to buy EMI, that will be a moment of truth that will show the Commission's true colors.' Well, that deal never happened either.

White is actually one of my favorite colors. I have a white car. I love white.