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

The only way around is through.

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.

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.