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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.
Dance is the product of the necessity for pure emotional expression.
When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.
Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap
It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?
I believe in anthologies, although I know they offer only a glimpse.
What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives.
The women rest their tired half-healed hearts; they are almost well.
Before we love with our heart, we already love with our imagination.
Tell the truth... maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
At daybreak Morn shall come to meIn raiment of the white winds spun.
I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.
If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.
Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.
The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.
Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.
It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.
The rich are never threatened by the poor - they do not notice them.
After you kind of find your footing, sonnets are what comes easiest.
For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.
Always there is something worth saying about glory, about gratitude.
Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?
One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.
Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.
April's air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances
One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.
I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.
For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
Remembering is the opposite of being here now; it's being there now.
My goal has not ever been to change minds, my goal is to open minds.
Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.
When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick
There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.
Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.
Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.
Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.
And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.
I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.