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.

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

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

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.