The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew

Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.

The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

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.