Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.

Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)

Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.