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  1. There are no great things, only small things with great love.
  2. Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
  3. Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
  4. A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
  5. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
  6. To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
  7. A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
  8. Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once a week.
  9. I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
  10. The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
  11. Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
  12. The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
  13. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
  14. A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
  15. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
  16. Never wear anything that panics the cat.
  17. A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
  18. A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
  19. An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
  20. A picture is a poem without words.