When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purrin….

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar..

In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so chosen as logically to b….

I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head..

There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo..

Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong..

I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried..

It is a mistake to suppose, with some philosophers of aesthetics, that art and poetry aim to deal with the general and the abstract. This misconcepti….

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody..

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being..

I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it..

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet..

We all see only that which we are trained to see..

Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to tea….

You won't see Moonves on Twitter..

We only kill each other.

We are, after all, homo economicus..

Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do..

Your word is your bond, you do what you say you're going to do..

With Carmina Burana, my collected works begin..

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears..