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.

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

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

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

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

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

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

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

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

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

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