One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.
Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.
I learned words, I learned words; but half of them died from lack of exercise. And the ones I use often look at me with a look that whispers, Liar.
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
There’s only two times in life, there’s now and there’s too late.
Never use the word “impossible” seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebucket.
If Elvis Presley had been a bowhunter, he'd probably be alive today.