Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.