Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you calling. Look out how you use proud words.

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley.

I was up day and night with Lincoln for years. I couldn't have picked a better companion.