Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

Children know the grace of god better than most of us. They see the world the way the morning brings it back to them; new and born and fresh and wonderful.

Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.

See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.

If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen.