Not content with acting, singing, and making people laugh, Leonard Nimoy also achieved acclaim as a poet. He released several volumes, but his 2002 collection, A Lifetime of Love: Poems on the Passages of Life, contained many moving examples of free verse. With the recent news of his passing, this verse from his poem Irish Eyes stands out:
They came to me too late to say That you were gone from now Oh, how I wish That I had known And could have helped somehow.
He didn't just write the words in his books, though...