By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.