“The heart can think of no devotionGreater than being shore to the ocean-Holding the curve of one position,Counting an endless repetition.”

“Holding the curve of one position, counting an endless repetition.”

“There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.”

“Nor is there wanting in the pressSome spirit to stand simply forth,Heroic in it nakedness,Against the uttermost of earth.The tale of earth's unhonored thingsSounds nobler there than 'neath the sun;And the mind whirls and the heart sings,And a shout greets the daring one.”

“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.”

“I hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo know that for destruction iceIs also great”

“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”