The sidelong glance is what you depend on.
Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.
Poetry is play. I’d even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.
More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
Nature is always hinting at us.
A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor’s point of view.
I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.
I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
People are inexterminable like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices that’s us.
End is a gloomy word.
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation.
Let me be the one To do what is done.
I’m always saying something that’s just the edge of something more.
Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt – above paying its respects to anybody’s doubt whatsoever.
When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.
Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.