The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Writing a poem is discovering.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

What we live by we die by.

The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.