You can't get too much winter in the winter.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.
I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.