Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.

Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.

Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

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.

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.