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.
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
The only way round is through.
Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
There may be little or much beyond the grave But the strong are saying nothing until they see.
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.
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
I go to school the youth to learn the future.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningWhose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village, though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must t...
I have been one acquainted with the night.I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.I have outwalked the furthest city light.I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Belief is better than anything else and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning b...
GATHERING LEAVESSpades take up leavesNo better than spoons,And bags full of leavesAre light as balloons.I make a great noiseOf rustling all dayLike rabbit and deerRunning away.But the mountains I rais...