If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.