To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?'

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.