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

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

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.

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.