Occupation: Poet Birth: March 26, 1874 Death: January 29, 1963
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length..
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out..
It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense..
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's..
You can't get too much winter in the winter..
God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh); God found I wasn't there At least not over half..
Pressed into service means pressed out of shape..
The only way out is to go through.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me..
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the ….
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding en….
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day..
The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state..
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider..
A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being..
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness..
The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security..
The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all..
In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one ti….
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected..
Don't be agnostic - be something..