Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

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. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.

You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!

I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.