By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

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We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

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.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

He asked with the eyes more than the lips for a shelter for the night.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

The objective idea is all I ever cared about. Most of my ideas occur in verse... To be too subjective with what an artist has managed to make objective is to come on him presumptuously and render ungraceful what he in pain of his life had faith he had made graceful.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Anything more than the truth would be too much.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.