Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

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.

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

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

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.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.