Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.

My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature

Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.