Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?'

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.

Nothing happens... but first a dream.

Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.

A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.

And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.