If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.