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Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.
One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?
It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.
All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.
But what would interest you about the brook, It's always cold in summer, warm in winter.
The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.
The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.
There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.
Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.
When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.
Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.
Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.