I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

I always entertain great hopes.

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.