The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes

Writing a poem is discovering.

Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

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.