“It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.”

“I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.”

“ One things there's no getting by,I've been a wicked girl,Says I...But, if I can't be sorry I might as well be glad ! ”

“Strange how few, After all’s said and done, the things that areOf moment. Few indeed! When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! “I had you and I have you now no more.” There, there it dangles,—where’s the little truth That can for long keep footing under thatWhen its slack syllables tighten to a thought? Here, let me write it down! I wish to see Just how a thing like that will look on paper! “I had you and I have you now no more.”

“To a Young PoetTime cannot break the bird's wing from the bird.Bird and wing togetherGo down, one feather.No thing that ever flew,Not the lark, not you,Can die as others do.”

“So up I got in anger,And took a book I had,And put a ribbon on my hairTo please a passing lad.And, "One thing there's no getting by --I've been a wicked girl," said I;But if I can't be sorry, why,I might as well be glad!”

“Ah, I could lay me down in this long grassAnd close my eyes, and let the quiet windBlow over me”