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

So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

We love the things we love for what they are.