My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.

I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice is also great and would suffice.

Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

What we live by we die by.

The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.