When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

The music is in minors.