Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.