Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
The artist in me cries out for design.
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.