When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds..

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother..

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things..

If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry..

I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice is also great and would suffice..

Let me be the one To do what is done..

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation..

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward..

But what would interest you about the brook, It's always cold in summer, warm in winter..

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30..

The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere..

When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold..

Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days..

What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all..

I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out..

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended..

Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul..

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down..

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And….

What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite..

Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more business….