"A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."
"The best way out is always through."
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."
"Nor is there wanting in the pressSome spirit to stand simply forth,Heroic in it nakedness,Against the uttermost of earth.The tale of earth's unhonored thingsSounds nobler there than 'neath the sun;And the mind whirls and the heart sings,And a shout greets the daring one."