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

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

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

If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.

I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some say when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on, I shall have less to say, But I shall be none.