Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form..

You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating o….

O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the l….

Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materiali….

I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another languag….

Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze..

You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose..

Freedom is when you are easy in the harness..

Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the on….

Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready..

loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round.

Yet some say Love by being thrall And simply staying possesses all In several beauty that Thought fares far To find fused in another star..

I do not see why I should e’er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if sti….

We're either nothing or a God's regret..

A turning point in modern history..

The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing..

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting..

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down..

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people..

Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred; Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to b….

The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid..