So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

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

Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.

The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.