Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

April is the cruellest month.

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.