I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I’d pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

The average person’s ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

Out there in the spotlight you’re a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond – had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.

Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

What I try to do is to go into a poem – and one writes them, of course, poem by poem – to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever...

As I open myself to questions being posed by those from other systems, I gain perspective on how many of my beliefs are system based.

True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; they hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.

We’re all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent — criticism.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience – by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

Slow and steady wins the race.

I do a lot of readings.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one’s nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

But thousands of people march to my songs, some just ignore me and shuffle along, some other tip me, hah, and sometimes they sing right along.

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.

My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.

Of course, you can’t legislate for how people are going to read.

It is not necessary to deny another’s reality in order to affirm your own.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

I know of no better name than Anarchism.

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.

McCain needs Hillary to run because that’s what keeps the Republican coalition together. She helps unite the Republican base.

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

I don’t really care who gets their inspiration from where, it’s the end results that count.

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor...

So what becomes of you my love when they have finally stripped you of the handbags and the glad rags that your Granddad had to sweat so you could buy.

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

Love is my religion – I could die for it.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a...