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I will not ask you where you have been tonight
I'll only say hello
and hope.

If you love somebody, tell them.

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes.

I was rich in those days, for a week I had everything. I wish I'd known you then.

Crowded rooms and lonesome tunes and very little sky.

Eternity sneaks in
her arms full of wild promises.

and if the world breaks down, I'll be around.

We will all wake up semi-angels,
If we wake at all.

Never fear being alone, because you never are.

I've come to terms with it, it knows I know.

I have fallen in love with the world
And I am aware that I have chosen
the most dangerous lover of them all.

Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence.

I'm not the first man or the last
who had a thirst to leave the past.

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

If I could do it over, I'd do better.

You know, in a way, I wish I could hate a little more. It would make me a more rounded personality.

Thank you for the sun you brought this morning
even though the sky was full of clouds.

Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.

People are not born bastards. They have to work at it.

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

Love is a sweet thing caught a moment
and held in a golden eye.

Everybody has the answers or they'll make them up for you. Just once I'd like to hear a brand-new question.

Extending your hand is extending yourself.

I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.

Theres no misery in not being loved,
only in not loving

Did you think of party dresses
and high school plays
or hallways full of lovers not yet met?

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

Even when you feel you've reached the end or edge of life, hold on. Life itself will ultimately take care of you.

This is the way it was while I was waiting for your eyes to find me.

I had a pet raccoon that took my tooth brush once,
But only to another room.

It's nice sometimes
to open up the heart a little
and let some hurt come in.
It proves you're still alive.

These long years later it is worse
for I remember what it was
as well as what it might have been.

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

I went back to look for you.
Not understanding the language of hello,
I thought I'd speak it just the same.

To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines.

I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

I was tired. I peaked. I left when I was on top. One year, I did 280 concerts.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

Who is not a love seeker when December comes? Even children pray to Santa Claus.

Watch the indolent butterfly playing on the tall flower in the yard and think about the sun going down. It always does you know.

Now is next to nothing compared to where I've been.

Sorry no one could see how beautifully happy we were.

Always I glance both ways.
Why chance missing love
wherever she or he may lurk?

The journey back is always longer than the forward run.

There is no other way to find ourselves but in each others faces.

I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair.

I want to see the world within the circle of your arms and sail the wide sea of your thighs.