My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.
The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.