“I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.”

“The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.”

“Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.”

“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. ”

“THE FIGURE A POEM MAKESNo one can really hold that ecstasy should be static and stand still in one place. It begins in delight, it inclines to the impulse, it assumes direction with the first line laid down, it runs a course of lucky events, and ends in a clarification of life- Not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.”

“He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors.”

“Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.”