It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

God did not need any assistance, but man did; bitterly he wanted it, and the giving of such assistance was the proper business of a woman.

In that wide struggle which we call Progress, evil is always the aggressor and the vanquished, and it is right that this should be so, for without its onslaughts and depredations humanity might fall...

And we forget because we must and not because we will.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

With the advance of feudalism came the growth of iron armor, until, at last, a fighting-man resembled an armadillo.

I knew about holiness, never having missed a Sunday-school class since I started at four years. But if Jews were also religious, how could our neighbor with the grease-grimy shirt use the word 'damn'...

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

At some point, I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it; that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

Light tomorrow with today!

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

Time brings all things to pass.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Little things please little minds.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become...

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of...

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.