The test is always how we treat the poor.

The sidelong glance is what you depend on.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.

All great things are done for their own sake.

I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.

We love the things we love for what they are.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

I am one who has been acquainted with the night

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.

What are we? Young or new? We must be something.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

I play better tennis because the court is there.

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.

Democracy is the best chance for the best people.

It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose.

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

As a confirmed astronomer I'm always for a better sky.

In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

Men work together, whether they work together or apart.

Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.

When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.

Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.

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