I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
I go to school the youth to learn the future.
I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
What we live by we die by.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
One aged man – one man – can’t fill a house.
I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn’t been.
Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.
Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length.