To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

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

Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true