192 quotes found
Poet · American · 1874–1963
American poet (1874–1963)
“There may be little or much beyond the grave But the strong are saying nothing until they see.”
“Home is the place when you have to go there they have to take you in.”
“There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.”
“I always entertain great hopes.”
“At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and do...”
“Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.”
“An idea is a feat of association and the height of it is a good metaphor.”
“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
“You've got to love what's lovable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.”
“Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.”
“You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination - what's right and what's wrong what's good and what's bad.”
“Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.”
“A poem begins with a lump in the throat a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found it...”
“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
“A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.”
“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.”
“Don't be agnostic - be something.”
“Home is the place where when you have to go there They have to take you in.”
“All thought is a feat of association having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.”
“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.”