True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.
Love is unworldly and nothing comes of it but love.
There is no comment on pictures but pictures, on music but music, on poems but poetry. If you do, you do. If you don't, you don't. And that's all there is to that.
It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
The pure products of America go crazy
The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
But one on earth is better than the wife; that is the mother.
I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.
If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.