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."

Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.

My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.

Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.