Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

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

I always entertain great hopes.

The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee, Expend their bloom in vain. Come over the hills and far with me, And be my love in the rain.

I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.

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

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.