There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

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

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation