If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning after the experience of a wonderful day. But I was not able to make the consummation anywhere nearly as beautiful as the inspiration. That, I suppose, is the cry of every heart struggling for self-expression.

But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy.

Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.