There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.
One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
The ways we miss our lives are life.
Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.
most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.
The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don't know how much I appreciate it.
Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.
A lot of people, when you ask if they want to read your epic poem, start bolting for the door.
Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our Lord's sweet hand square us and hammer us and strike off the knots of pride self-love and world-worship and infidelity that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father's house.