The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

What we live by we die by.

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.