If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos..

The map of America is a map of endlessness, of opening out, of forever and ever. No man's face would make you think of it but his hope might, his cou….

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibil….

The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal..

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience..

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable..

The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the wei….

A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer..

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd..

Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because thro….

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of cho….

See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats..

If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sound….

Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think….

How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritari….

To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, ….

There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the….

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man..

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at ….

Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question..