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

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

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.