What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.