Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.

Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.