Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

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.

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in, The tribute of the current to the source. It is from this in nature we are from. It is most us.

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Nature is always hinting at us.