I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.
I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.
There is no comment on pictures but pictures, on music but music, on poems but poetry. If you do, you do. If you don't, you don't. And that's all there is to that.
It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
The pure products of America go crazy
The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours.
By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we perpetrate the ugly legacy of slavery-teaching our children that some lives are inherently less precious than others.
As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.