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

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

The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.