I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.

The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.

I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.