“Walter Pater said that all the arts aspire to the condition of music, but Ive always felt that music aspires to the condition of words.”

“The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through ”

“I'm heading for a clean-named placelike Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get therewithout help and nosy proclivities.”

“A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probablythere too, and bore witness as only rodents can.”

“Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of the featureless wholeLike some pocket history of the world, so genera...”

“Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision”

“Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.No soldier's paid to kick against His powers.We laughed, knowing that better men would come,And greater wars: whe...”

“I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.”

“It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.”

“Never forget that there is a soul within you, which loves you very much ,only because it's you.”

“If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.”

“It is a blessing to experience hardship. Not because we suffer, but because we learn to endure.”

“Love is such a tremendous force of feeling! When you can't stop loving, you simply cannot stop it.”

“When you think in silence you cannot speak your mind.”

“A successful person will never use the word no, I cannot or it is impossible”