The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.

Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.

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.

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.