The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.

we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.

I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.

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.

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.

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.