Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.

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

I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.

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.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.