It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.