“I always entertain great hopes.”

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.

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 is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

We dance around in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.

Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning.

Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love–that’s not so bad either.

There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.

The greater the man’s soul, the deeper he loves.

So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work.