I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee, Expend their bloom in vain. Come over the hills and far with me, And be my love in the rain.