Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
Stormy husky brawling City of the Big Shoulders.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
1 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Hope is an echo hope ties itself yonder yonder.
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land wanting to fly in the air.