I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.

A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice is also great and would suffice.

We ran as if to meet the moon.

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