There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.