“There are tones of voices that mean more than words.”

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

All great things are done for their own sake.

Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

What we live by we die by.

Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

I always entertain great hopes.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

You’ve got to love what’s loveable and hate what’s hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.

Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.

What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.