Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow.