At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done...
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.
They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themselves.
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
The only way out is through
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Freedom lies in being bold.
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
The only way round is through.
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.