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"I don't have a television set up [in the mountains], of course, but I find I don't miss it at all, or the newspaper. I've sneaked a radio into by cabin, but I find I turn it on very rarely."
"I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen."
"Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm"
"In our rags of light, all dressed to kill."
"All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson."
"I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune."
"I feel that this is a vocabulary that I grew up with. This biblical landscape is very familiar to me, and it's natural that I use those landmarks as references. Once they were universal references and everybody understood and knew them and located them. That's no longer the case today, but it is still my landscape."
"[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one of my tunes into that really beautiful chamber music."
"Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession."
"I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates."
"I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye."
"I'm never sure why I do anything, to tell you the truth."
"Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else." Then let's be quiet together."
"Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you."
"And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart."
"In My Secret Life" "I saw you this morning, you were moving so fast. Can't seem to loosen my grip On the past. And I miss you so much, there's no one in sight. And we're still making love In my secret life. I smile when I am angry, I cheat and I lie, I do what I have to do to get by, In my secret life."
"I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life."
"The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back."
"Maybe the culture is [particularly] shabby now. Maybe it's because I'm over sixty, that I can feel that about everything."
"When it all comes down to dust I will kill you if I must , I will help you if I can. When it all comes down to dust I will help you if I must, I will kill you if I can."