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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.