"We are all born creative. We just got it educated out of us."

“I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.”

“All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!”

“I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.”

“A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something.”

“I must return to the mountains-to Yosemite. I am told that the winter storms there will not be easily borne, but I am bewitched, enchanted, and tomorrow I must start for the great temple to listen to the winter songs and sermons preached and sung only there.”

“A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an adultery.”

Source : Karl Shapiro (1964). “the Bourgeois Poet”

“Since the soul in me is dead, Better save the skin.”

“Fragrance is the voice of inanimate things.”