Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.
I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is feudalism, where a tiny minority control the vast majority of wealth, power, and resources. In doing so, they have absolute control over the 99% of the population. Power equals control.
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.
When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body. " Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the universe, the order and beauty of the world, and the obedience of God that are entering our body.
The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.
Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.