Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
So was I once myself a swinger of birches.And so I dream of going back to be.
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
Nature's first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
Don't be agnostic - be something.
The heart can think of no devotionGreater than being shore to the ocean-Holding the curve of one position,Counting an endless repetition.
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.
The mind-is not the heart.I may yet live, as I know others live,To wish in vain to let go with the mind
No tears and the writer no tears and the reader.
I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
All thought is a feat of association.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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.
You've got to love what's lovable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
I go to school the youth to learn the future.
To be social is to be forgiving.