he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.

Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."

Revision is its own reward.