I am in the world feeling my way to light ‚amid the encircling gloom.‘

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn’t until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

I’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

I used to consider the listener. But now I’m in a space where, if I’m not inspired, I can’t really do the music. I can’t feel it.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

I always felt an outsider.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate… The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‚irrelevant,‘ or consumed by ‚paranoid anti-Americanism,‘ but perhaps not wise.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

When I listen to a song, I don’t say, ‚Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.‘ I’m thinking, ‚That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.‘

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.