For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee, Expend their bloom in vain. Come over the hills and far with me, And be my love in the rain.

Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.