Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has - the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge - infinitely precious, time-resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry.

Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.