I play better tennis because the court is there.
Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.
Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.
I never take my own side in a quarrel.
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
You’ve got to be brave and you’ve got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what’s right and what’s wrong, what’s good and what’s bad.
Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment.
What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
One age is like another for the soul.
A turning point in modern history.
Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.
The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.
Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye;.
Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
It’s hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what’s in between doesn’t make much sense.
I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.
I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some say when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on, I shall have less to say, But I shall be none.