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

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

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

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