There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month. By temperament I'm a vagabond and a tramp.

Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you

Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.