The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
I turned to speak to God About the world’s despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn’t there.
The land was ours before we were the land’s. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.
Families break up when they get hints you don’t intend and miss hints that you do.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
Anything more than the truth would be too much.
College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage...
We ran as if to meet the moon.
The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.
What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
You can’t get too much winter in the winter.
The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.