Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.

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

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in, The tribute of the current to the source. It is from this in nature we are from. It is most us.

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

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

All great things are done for their own sake.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.