Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

What are we? Young or new? We must be something.

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.

The only way around is through.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.