When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

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

How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.