To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.
I believe the world is beautiful, and poetry, like bread, is for everyone.
My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.
You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they attach to the fact of being observed through the eyes of a satiric poet.
I don't believe in angels but the moon is now dead for me. The last glass of wine is gone before the thirst I'm suffering from. The blue grass lost its way running away from your sails.
The rose blinds the sharpshooting champions.
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Chimps act the way they feel unless they are afraid of reprisal if they do so. But that doesn't apply to humans.
When Bird came on the scene, it was just as shocking as in the Bible: everything was dark, and then the light appeared for the first time.
There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.