Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.

It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.