The Father Is Always A Republican Toward His Son, And His Mother's Always A Democrat.
Poets Are Like Baseball Pitchers. Both Have Their Moments. The Intervals Are The Tough Things.
You Have Freedom When You're Easy In Your Harness.
A Poet Never Takes Notes. You Never Take Notes In A Love Affair.
Modern Poets Talk Against Business, Poor Things, But All Of Us Write For Money. Beginners Are Subjected To Trial By Market.
If One By One We Counted People Out For The Least Sin, It Wouldn't Take Us Long To Get So We Had No One Left To Live With. For To Be Social Is To Be Forgiving.
Being The Boss Anywhere Is Lonely. Being A Female Boss In A World Of Mostly Men Is Especially So.
One Aged Man - One Man - Can't Fill A House.
You Can't Get Too Much Winter In The Winter.
A Mother Takes Twenty Years To Make A Man Of Her Boy, And Another Woman Makes A Fool Of Him In Twenty Minutes.
We Dance Round In A Ring And Suppose, But The Secret Sits In The Middle And Knows.
The Only Way Round Is Through.
I Have Never Started A Poem Yet Whose End I Knew. Writing A Poem Is Discovering.
A Poem Begins As A Lump In The Throat, A Sense Of Wrong, A Homesickness, A Lovesickness.
I Often Say Of George Washington That He Was One Of The Few In The Whole History Of The World Who Was Not Carried Away By Power.
I'm Not Confused. I'm Just Well Mixed.
The Jury Consist Of Twelve Persons Chosen To Decide Who Has The Better Lawyer.
There Are Two Kinds Of Teachers: The Kind That Fill You With So Much Quail Shot That You Can't Move, And The Kind That Just Gives You A Little Prod Behind And You Jump To The Skies.
Education Is The Ability To Listen To Almost Anything Without Losing Your Temper Or Your Self-confidence.
The Worst Disease Which Can Afflict Executives In Their Work Is Not, As Popularly Supposed, Alcoholism; It's Egotism.
Poetry Is A Way Of Taking Life By The Throat.
Take Care To Sell Your Horse Before He Dies. The Art Of Life Is Passing Losses On.
I Alone Of English Writers Have Consciously Set Myself To Make Music Out Of What I May Call The Sound Of Sense.
And Were An Epitaph To Be My Story I'd Have A Short One Ready For My Own. I Would Have Written Of Me On My Stone: I Had A Lover's Quarrel With The World.
Let Him That Is Without Stone Among You Cast The First Thing He Can Lay His Hands On.
Love Is An Irresistible Desire To Be Irresistibly Desired.
Space Ails Us Moderns: We Are Sick With Space.
Poetry Is What Gets Lost In Translation.
The Chief Reason For Going To School Is To Get The Impression Fixed For Life That There Is A Book Side For Everything.
Style Is That Which Indicates How The Writer Takes Himself And What He Is Saying. It Is The Mind Skating Circles Around Itself As It Moves Forward.
They Would Not Find Me Changed From Him They Knew - Only More Sure Of All I Thought Was True.
The Ear Is The Only True Writer And The Only True Reader.
A Liberal Is A Man Too Broadminded To Take His Own Side In A Quarrel.
Two Such As You With Such A Master Speed, Cannot Be Parted Nor Be Swept Away, From One Another Once You Are Agreed, That Life Is Only Life Forevermore, Together Wing To Wing And Oar To Oar.
What We Live By We Die By.
Poetry Is About The Grief. Politics Is About The Grievance.
Pressed Into Service Means Pressed Out Of Shape.
The Artist In Me Cries Out For Design.
No Memory Of Having Starred Atones For Later Disregard, Or Keeps The End From Being Hard.
Writing Free Verse Is Like Playing Tennis With The Net Down.
Freedom Lies In Being Bold.
To Be Social Is To Be Forgiving.
I'd Just As Soon Play Tennis With The Net Down.
The Figure A Poem Makes. It Begins In Delight And Ends In Wisdom... In A Clarification Of Life - Not Necessarily A Great Clarification, Such As Sects And Cults Are Founded On, But In A Momentary Stay Against Confusion.
You Can Be A Rank Insider As Well As A Rank Outsider.
Nobody Was Ever Meant, To Remember Or Invent, What He Did With Every Cent.
No Tears In The Writer, No Tears In The Reader. No Surprise In The Writer, No Surprise In The Reader.
You Can Be A Little Ungrammatical If You Come From The Right Part Of The Country.
I Am A Writer Of Books In Retrospect. I Talk In Order To Understand; I Teach In Order To Learn.
College Is A Refuge From Hasty Judgment.