Money and art are far apart.

One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.

Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.

Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.