“I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.”
“Like a true Nature's child, we were born, born to be wild”
“We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.”
“If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together, In sad or singing weather, Blown fields or flowerful closes, Green pleasure or grey grief; If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf.”
“We have a natural resentment toward government, which was how we were born”
“This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.”