Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child..

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself..

Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions..

Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness'….

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man..

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect..

Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can….

The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. Soldiers tied rags on their feet. Red footprints wrote on the snow....

And those who say, "I'll try anything once," often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for..

The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite..

The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable..

Come on, you Do you want to live forever?.

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty..

Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to..

Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing si….

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations..

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago..

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a l….

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep..

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help..