Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.
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