The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks.

In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look

If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.

There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.