Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.

Life is tons of discipline.

What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.