"Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another."

"Character gives us qualities, but it is on our actions--what we do--that we are happy or the reverse."

"The pleasures arising from thinking and learing will make us think and learn all the more"

"Poetry expresses the universal, and history the particular."

"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than going to a garage makes you an automobile."

"Writting free verse is like playing tennis with the net down"

'Poetry ought to go straight to the heart because it has come from the heart."

Those who gossip with you, will gossip about you.

Its not my fault that I fell for you, you tripped me!

Love me when I least deserve it because thats when I need it the most