The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

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

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

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.

I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.