The joy that isn't shared dies young.

I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

In a dream you are never eighty.

Death's in the good-bye.

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Need is not quite belief.

God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.

Be careful of words they can be both daisies and bruises.

Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.

It doesnt matter who my father was. It matters who I remember he was.

It doesnt matter who my father was it matters who I remember he was.

Depression is boring I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea a boat that floats home or does not.

The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives

It is June. I am tired of being brave.

The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.

A starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.

Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.

Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out

It is love that walks away and yet we have terrible mouths and soft milk hands. We worry with like. We walk away like love.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.