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

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?

My heart hath followed all my days Something I cannot name.

Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.