Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
It is the business of little minds to shrink.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
There is only one child in the world and the Child’s name is All Children.
There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere.
In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon.
By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.
Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost.
Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.