Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
There may be little or much beyond the grave But the strong are saying nothing until they see.
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
The only way out is through
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
I go to school the youth to learn the future.
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept.... My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
No tears and the writer no tears and the reader.
Don't be agnostic - be something.
Belief is better than anything else and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.
When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloudAnd goes down burning into the gulf below,No voice in nature is heard to cry aloudAt what has happened. Birds, at least must knowIt is the change to darkn...
Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.