Occupation: Poet Birth: March 26, 1874 Death: January 29, 1963
The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued..
I go to school the youth to learn the future..
Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite..
Education is hanging around until you've caught on..
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words..
Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest..
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the mom….
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length..
Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot..
A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more..
The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of….
Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away.
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a meta….
No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found..
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation.
Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the….
I'm not a teacher, but an awakener..