Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

The sidelong glance is what you depend on.

Good fences make good neighbors.

Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.