Democracy is the best chance for the best people.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
If one by one we counted people out
Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.