Occupation: Poet Birth: June 24, 1916 Death: March 30, 1986
The day will happen whether or not you get up..
There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation..
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone..
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students..
Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft..
The public library is the most dangerous place in town.
Fermentation and civilization are inseparable..
Men marry what they need. I marry you..
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea..
Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!.
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen..
You have to fall in love with hanging around words..
Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The reader generally needs a single ….
The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself..
At the next vacancy for God, if I am elected, I shall forgive last the delicately wounded who, having been slugged no harder than anyone else, never ….
If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His pro….
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of gree….
Let our love be like an arch- two weaknesses leaning together to form one strength..
Poetry lies its way to the truth..
A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale..
Patience is the art of caring slowly..