A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

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

The only way out is through.

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.