It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching..

For hard it is to keep from being King When it's in you and in the situation..

The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to h….

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 sa….

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes..

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

Leaves and bark, leaves and bark, To lean against and hear in the dark. Petals I may have once pursued. Leaves are all my darker mood..

Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy....

One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right..

Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak..

For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it….

To Time it never seems that he is brave To set himself against the peaks of snow To lay them level with the running wave, Nor is he overjoyed when….

The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getti….

Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life ….

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is somet….

Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white ligh….

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep....

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age..

Ants are a curious race.

GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of rustling all day….

I never take my own side in a quarrel..