All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.

Where the earth is, we are.

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

I hate commas in the wrong places.