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.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.