The dark is light enough.

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.

What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?

In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.

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

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.