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Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.
Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.
There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.
Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.
I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.
Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
I was up day and night with Lincoln for years. I couldn't have picked a better companion.
A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.
It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley.
Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.
Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.
a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.
Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.
And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.
I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.
Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.
I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.
Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
Who else speaks for the Family of Man? They are in tune and step with constellations of universal law.
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.
Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.