One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee, Expend their bloom in vain. Come over the hills and far with me, And be my love in the rain.

I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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