Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Life is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.

It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.