A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth. The tale of earth's unhonored things Sounds nobler there than 'neath the sun; And the mind whirls and the heart sings, And a shout greets the daring one.

What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.

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