We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows..

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press..

What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth..

There are tones of voices that mean more than words..

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with ….

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself..

There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be ….

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second..

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distin….

Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better..

Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely….

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession..

There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of ….

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so..

States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three..

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches..

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems..

I write to find out what I didn't know I knew..

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas..

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house..

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office..