“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”

“All I know is a door into the dark”

“I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.”

“I rhymeTo see myself, to set the darkness echoing.”

“There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you. ”

“Since when," he asked,"Are the first line and last line of any poemWhere the poem begins and ends?”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”

“Im not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. Ive seen a chunk of the universe, true, but theres still so much more to see. I doubt Ill ever cure t...”

“My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,My gentle guide, in following thee.”

“Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmonious...”