I never take my own side in a quarrel..

(Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite, Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;) And go along with you ere you lose sight Of what yo….

Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain..

A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to n….

Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!.

The Moon for all her light and grace Has never learned to know her place..

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them..

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I ….

It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god..

But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels hav….

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness..

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent..

Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun ….

The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the ….

People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong ….

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.

The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing ….

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall..

I have remained resentful to this day When any but myself presumed to say That there was anything I couldn't be..

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power..

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows..