Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
We love things we love what they are.
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.
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.