Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

Nature is always hinting at us.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.

It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.