Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.

My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.