"To begin with, the basis of English poetry is rhythm, or, as some would prefer to call it, cadence. This rhythm is obtained by mingling stressed and unstressed syllables."

"Imagism was not Symbolism, but it proceeds from it"

"I should strive (on reading a book of poetry) to evoke the a soul out of this piece of inanimate matter,a something characteristic and structural inherent in this organic form which is friendly to me and responds to my mood."

"Poetry merely descriptive of nature, however vivid, no longer seems enough for me, there has to be added to it, the human judgement, the human evaluation."

"When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?"

"If you have to dry the dishes (Such an awful boring chore) If you have to dry the dishes ('Stead of going to the store) If you have to dry the dishes And you drop one on the floor Maybe they won't let you Dry the dishes anymore"

"Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy."

"Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understand each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings, And shared a conversation with the housefly in my bed."

"How do you do! My name is Sue! Now you gonna die!"

"Rollin' Stone, Wanna see my picture on the cover. Wanna buy five copies for my mother [Yeah!] Wanna see my smilin' face, on the cover, The cover of the Rollin Stone."

"There's a Polar Bear In our Frigidaire - He likes it 'cause it's cold in there."

"There is no road to the land without roads."

"That others know: science. That others choose: politics."

"Solitude takes time. One becomes alone, like a towel drying."

"He Thought Positively till he became a euphemism for himself."

"Yet sadly we feel that many of the noisiest are more interested in their indignation than in the injustice."

"How often feelings are circular. How embarrassing to be embarrassed. How annoying to be annoyed."

"I worked so hard to understand it that it must be true."

"Happiness is the readiness to be happy."

"Happiness, like water, is always available, but so often it seems we’d prefer a different drink."

"Birds of prey don’t sing."

"Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean."

"I’m sitting here bored, … trying to remember that everything is a complete mystery."

"I’ve spent so long trying to fly that it’s too late to set out on foot."

"he’s so philosophical, his approach to thinking about time, and what will last."

"Path: where nothing grows."

"Anger has been ready to be angry."

"Bitterness is a greater failure than failure."

"Judging itself brings the pain of being judged. The wicked judge mistakes this for another crime of the accused and lengthens his sentence."

"What’s the difference between provincialism, which unthinkingly takes its situation for everyone’s, and cosmopolitanism, which is confident it has the right to?"

"The mind is like a well-endowed museum, only a small fraction of its holdings on view at any one time."

"I am not unambitious. I am just too ambitious for what you call ambitions."

"Hasn’t there … been a little too much zeal in our reproof of children and friends for yielding to the temptations we ourselves find it most difficult to resist? We punish where we can least afford to sympathize. Of all the horrors of the daily news, it seems hardest to imagine the kind of cruelty that is intensified by the pain of its victims, but whenever we feel sympathy would weaken us, we are a little closer to the torturer."

"The first quest or the first love is also the last. The second isn’t."

"Embarrassment is the greatest teacher, but since its lessons are exactly those we have tried hardest to conceal from ourselves, it may teach us, also, to perfect our self-deception."

"Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system."

"The man who sticks to his plan will become what he used to want to be."

"Envy is ashamed of itself. If it weren’t hanging back, it would go all the way to emulation and love."

"I lied. And my embarrassment was so great that I changed everything else to make the lie true."

"Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks."

"Patience is decisive indecision."

"The new gets old much faster than the old gets older."

"The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of."

"To condemn your sin in another is hypocrisy. Not to condemn is to reserve your right to sin."

"Let me have my dreams but not what I dream of."

"A strange gratitude for those I disagree with. They keep me from having to take too seriously the moments when I disagree with myself."

"He does not deserve your praise, but he deserves to be treated as if someday he might."