“To see the Summer SkyIs Poetry, though never in a Book it lie—True Poems flee—”
“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.”
“The most buried treasures lie in the cemetery. There lies buried the dreams that never came true, the goals that were never reached, the inventions that were never created and the books that were never written. Don’t be a buried treasure.”
“Kissing you is pleasant. Like lying in a hammock on a summer day with a book and a glass of lemonade.”
“My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.”
“In the poetry of attention, poems are not problems.”