Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet.

We feel the machine slipping from our hands As if someone else were steering; If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train.

I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn. But where The wind is westerly, Where gnarled November makes the spiders fly Into the apparitions of the sky, They purpose nothing but their ease and die Urgently beating east to sunrise and the sea.

We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor.