A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college.

Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.

O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst.

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.