I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

There is a wolf in me... - I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.