"The rain to the wind said,You push and I'll pelt.'They so smote the garden bedThat the flowers actually knelt,And lay lodged--though not dead.I know how the flowers felt."
"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."
"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."
"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."
"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."
"The best way out is always through."