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

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

Men work together, whether they work together or apart.

Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.