“No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results? ”

“Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.”

“No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results?”

“Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers.”

“...[T]hese people... are my dangerous accusers because those who hear them suppose that anyone who inquires into such matters... theories about the heavens... and everything below the earth... must...”

“When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.”

“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.”