Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

I don’t like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won’t hurt you. They’ll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

Love is only one of many passions.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

‚Young Indiana Jones’ was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn’t come out right, you’ve got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

I know some people might think it odd – unworthy even – for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people’s poet so I write for the people.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

I’ve got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I’ve done it.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.