Freedom lies in being bold.

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

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.

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

I have miles to go before I sleep.