Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.